Harden Corporate Story
Harden Housing Association is a not-for-profit affordable housing provider which manages more than 2,600 homes in Birmingham and across the West Midlands conurbation.
We exist to create places where people are proud to live and work.
Established more than 30 years ago, we have had ample time to prove ourselves as an excellent housing organisation with a reputation for financial strength, innovative management and high quality services.
We are based in Birmingham, and are proud to be a preferred partner in four of the Birmingham housing market areas, as well as in Solihull and Dudley.
As a major player in the West Midlands we have a first class track record for developing estates and building quality new homes to replace run-down houses and flats, the Australian blocks of flats in Hodge Hill, Birmingham, being a key example.
Our rents are amongst the lowest in the Birmingham area and our properties are well maintained – 99.8% already meet the Decent Homes Standard. We also enjoy consistently high resident satisfaction levels.
In 1998 we joined with St John Kemble Hereford Housing Association, now known as Kemble Housing, to create West Mercia Housing Group. A third association, Worcestershire Housing Association, since renamed Nexus Housing Association, joined the group in 1999.
Our latest group member, Whitefriars Housing, joined forces with West Mercia in 2009 and we have since re-branded our parent organisation as WM Housing Group.
The result is that we are now part of a regional force providing more than 24,000 homes which enjoys the status of being a Homes and Communities Agency lead investment partner and the lead member of the Spectrum Development Consortium.
Geographically WM Housing spans Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Coventry, Birmingham and the West Midlands. What links us is our agreed key values to provide excellent service, value people, act with integrity and deliver creative solutions.
Thanks to our status; our resources and opportunities have grown, but our autonomy and local specialism remain.