It is probably fair to say that, in day-to-day discourse around housing, the running of tenant management organisations (TMOs) and arm’s length management organisations (ALMOs) has not been a much discussed topic in recent years.

The latter have dwindled in number to 15 – down from their peak of 70 in the late 2000s when ALMOs managed half the council stock in England – while the former are often too small individually to trouble the headline writers. However, TMOs and ALMOs together are still a major part of the social housing landscape, managing more than 200,000 homes across the country.