Origin Housing has now become a subsidiary of 240,000-home housing association Places for People and will transition fully into the group over the next year.

As part of the merger deal, Places for People (PfP) has promised an additional £100m of investment in the 7,800 homes that Origin owned across London and Hertfordshire, over the first ten years following the merger. 

PfP has said that the merger will be “seamless, with tenancies unimpacted and services such as repairs, paying rent and service charges or raising issues with neighbourhood managers, all continuing to be delivered by existing staff from existing offices”.