CBHO stands for Community Based Housing Organisation. The process of setting up Community Based Housing Organisations began in June 2003 when a group of residents got together with members of the Council’s Housing Department to work out the best way forward for the local Council homes.

CBHO is a label to describe the way council tenants and leaseholders choose to work with their landlord in the future to do two things: -
1. improve the way services are provided on a day to day basis; and
2. look at how money can be found to carry out major improvements to Council homes

At the moment, Our Hodge Hill is setting up to be a CBHO Mark 1.

Click here for more details on the other CBHO options and how we’ve kept the door open to them all.

This website is brought to you by the Our Hodge Hill Board which is run by residents.

The Board is made up of:
• 9 Council tenant / leaseholders
• 2 Independents
• 3 Residents (e.g. owner occupiers, tenants of private landlords or housing association)
• 1 Non-voting council member

There is currently 1 vacancy for a resident board member from the Mirfield area and 1 vacancy for a member of staff from Birmingham City Councils housing department.
Please contact Lynne Park on 0121 464 1615 for more information.

At the moment we are a group of local resident volunteers who meet about once a month to:
1. hear what is happening in the Council
2. find out what residents think
3. report back to the Council and
4. monitor progress.

The Council held an initial conference in June 2003 to tell local people what had happened after the Council’s initial plans for housing were rejected in the stock transfer vote of 2002.
Local people in the whole Hodge Hill Constituency were then invited to work together in exploring what a Community Based Housing Organisation in the area might look like.

Four different groups of local residents got together from Bromfield, Mirfield (including Tile Cross and Kitts Green), Washwood Heath and Shard End. Toward the end of the process the Bromford, Mirfield and Washwood Heath residents joined together to compare notes and work together.

At the moment two groups are meeting, one made up of local residents from Shard End (North of the River Cole) and one for the other three areas: Our Hodge Hill.

We are still a very new organisation and are working with everyone who has wanted to get involved so far but we need more residents to get involved!

We are in the process of running local elections to make sure that Our Hodge Hill has a board, which has the support of local tenants and residents.