| AdminHistory | The Housing Management Committee was formed in September 1950, although it did not meet regularly until the following February. The committee consisted of sixteen members of the City Council, two of which were selected from the House Building Committee and two from the Health Committee. The committee inherited most of the functions of the old Estates Committee (see BCC/1/AM), but in some of its new remit, had to act in consultation with the newly formed House Building Committee (see BCC/1/CX), which had inherited the house building function from the Public Works Committee (see BCC/1/AO). The committee was served by a newly appointed Housing Manager and a Housing Management Department.
The functions of this committee, and its relationship to the New Estates Committee, are a little complicated. The new Housing Management Committee took over the administration and management of all houses in Birmingham. Its housing remit included the following; dealing with housing applications along with interviews and visits; house letting; house tenant exchanges and re-housing if property unfit; management of ‘squatters camps’; house furnishings; costing, payment and undertaking of repairs; general complaints; permits (for keeping pets etc); arrears and the sale of Council houses and freeholds. The New Estates Committee took over the administration and management of all other Council properties, including those premises that were considered to be combined shops and dwelling houses and the assessment and collection of rentals for all departments from the old Estates Committee, the negotiation of leases and acquisition of sites.
After April 1968, the Housing Management Committee was disestablished, with its functions, along with those of the New Estates Committee (see BCC/1/AM) and the House Building Committee being transferred to a new Housing Committee (see BCC/1/DH). |