From: John Paul, Consultant, Consulteast Sir – The popularity of apps on mobile phones has made me think about what we are trying to do in IT. When I showed an app I had got developed for one housing association to a colleague, he said, “Is that all it does?”. This made me think and…
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Just being social
From: Mike Eckersley, Head of ICT, North Lincolnshire Homes Sir – It seems that many housing providers are in the vanguard of business users of social media. This obviously presents challenges for IT teams. While the accepted wisdom once was simply to ‘block everything’, this is clearly not acceptable any longer, particularly with a generation…
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Universal credit or universal debt?
From: John Doyle, Director, The Housing Contact Company Sir – I do not envy the challenge facing every social landlord with the advent of the Welfare Reform bill. The current situation of increasing rent arrears and the task of collecting that income before it turns into bad debt would make the notion of Universal Credit…
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Back to the future
From: Paul Lees, Chief Executive, Adactus Housing Sir – Early in my career I was working in Liverpool as a housing officer. At that time, the only way to communicate with tenants was to physically visit them in their homes. I suggested to my manager that we supply land-line telephones to all tenants to enable…
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Making IT simple
The announcement in the 2012 Budget that, “further measures to deregulate and simplify the planning system [will be] introduced” was swiftly followed by the publication of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) which reduced more than 1,000 pages of planning guidance to around 50 pages. The changes, which have been welcomed by the National Housing…
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JMC completes £2m contract to merge Arena and Harvest
JMC IT has just completed a two-phase, 18-month project for the merger of Manchester’s Harvest Housing Group and Liverpool’s Arena Housing Group to form Your Housing Group. The new group will now own and manage around 32,000 properties in the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands. Salford-based JMC originally won the initial £600,000 tender against…
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