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Orbit Group is a group of
housing association In Ireland and the United Kingdom, housing associations are private, Non-profit organization, non-profit making organisations that provide low-cost "Public housing in the United Kingdom, social housing" for people in need of a home. Any budge ...
s providing
affordable housing Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on affo ...
to around 40,000 households in England, mainly in the Midlands, East Anglia and the south east, operating out of 7 offices with the head office in Coventry.


History

Orbit Housing Association was established in 1966. In 1998 the company established Orbit Bexley Housing Association to take on the management of the 4,500 transferred from the London Borough of Bexley, under a process known as large scale voluntary transfer (LSVT). Thanet Community Housing Association joined the group in 2004 and brought with it stock in east
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. In October 2007 Orbit Bexley and Thanet Community were merged to form Orbit South. Orbit is active in promoting shared ownership as well as providing homes for rent. In 2010, Orbit helped 117 families through the Government's 'Mortgage Rescue' scheme, more than any other association. In 200
Orbit Homes
the development and sales arm of the Orbit Group was formed. Orbit Homes build in excess of 1,000 new homes per year across a range of tenures including Shared Ownership, Outright Sale and Independent Living throughout the Midlands, East and South East of England In 2012, Baroness
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joined the board of the Orbit Group as its future Chair. Orbit Group appointed Phil Andrew, the current CEO of
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, as its new CEO starting July 2023. He will take over from Mark Hoyland, who has served as Orbit Group CEO since 2017.


References


External links


Official Site
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