Wolverhampton Homes
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Wolverhampton Homes is an Arms Length Management Organisation
(ALMO) which manages properties owned by Wolverhampton City Council, in Wolverhampton
, England. It was established in 2005 and is a registered member of the National Federation of ALMOs. Its Chief Executive is Lesley Roberts.
It is responsible for letting the homes through a letting scheme called 'Homes in the City', collecting rent and other charges, repairing the properties and delivering the Government's Decent Homes programme. It is governed by a board of 15 directors. Five of whom are independent, with expertise in a variety of professional functions, five are tenants, who live in the homes themselves and five are Councillors at Wolverhampton City Council.
It manages approximately 23,500 properties, which includes 1900 leaseholds (where a tenant has bought a property through the Right to buy scheme
and is in the process has become a leaseholder).
Arms Length Management Organisation
Arms Length Management Organisations or arm's length management organisations are UK not-for-profit companies set up by a local authorities primarily to manage and improve all or part of their housing stock. Ownership of the housing stock itself normally stays with the local authority...
(ALMO) which manages properties owned by Wolverhampton City Council, in Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...
, England. It was established in 2005 and is a registered member of the National Federation of ALMOs. Its Chief Executive is Lesley Roberts.
It is responsible for letting the homes through a letting scheme called 'Homes in the City', collecting rent and other charges, repairing the properties and delivering the Government's Decent Homes programme. It is governed by a board of 15 directors. Five of whom are independent, with expertise in a variety of professional functions, five are tenants, who live in the homes themselves and five are Councillors at Wolverhampton City Council.
It manages approximately 23,500 properties, which includes 1900 leaseholds (where a tenant has bought a property through the Right to buy scheme
Right to buy scheme
The Right to buy scheme is a policy in the United Kingdom which gives tenants of council housing the right to buy the home they are living in. Currently, there is also a right to acquire for the tenants of housing associations...
and is in the process has become a leaseholder).