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Bromford is a social Enterprise providing affordable housing and specialist housing support services. The businesses covers a wide geographical area, predominately Central England, which includes the West Midlands, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Gloucestershire, Cirencester, the Cotswolds, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire and some areas of East Wales. Bromford also incorporates Bromford Homes, an outright sale business arm providing shared ownership homes to assist private/ social renters move onto the property ladder. Bromford currently has 28,000 affordable homes and 9,000 people receiving specialist support, meaning the business has more than 60,000 customers across its operating area.〔http://www.guardian.co.uk/housing-network/2012/jun/08/bromford-housing-group〕 ==History== In 1918 rented housing comprised 70% of the market but only a fraction of these homes were deemed to be ‘affordable’ or ‘social’. There were a number of charitable housing bodies such as the Guinness Trust and Peabody Trust, and some industrial companies who supplied rented homes for their workers but they were relatively small in number. Local authorities only started to provide rented homes in any volume after the Great War. The development of new affordable housing by (associations ) (HA) was an objective of the established charitable organisations such as Peabody and Cadbury but they expanded only slowly until the 1960s. Bromford Housing Association Limited, named after Bromford Bridge railway station in the Bromford area of Birmingham, was formed by a group of housing sector professionals in 1963. They formed a management committee run by quantity surveyor and Chairman Charles Bucknall, estate agent Robert Oulsnam〔http://www.oulsnam.net/GenericPage.aspx?type=OurOffice&key=TributetoROulsnam〕 and solicitor Keith James. In order to take advantage of loans from the new Housing Corporation an entirely new association had to be formed as a ‘society’. This became ‘Second Bromford Housing Society’.〔http://www.bromfordgroup.co.uk/media/370456/bromford_story_5_dec_2012.pdf〕 Bromford’s first scheme was built at West Heath Road in Birmingham. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bromford Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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