Sir – At the time of writing (early August 2014), the Homes and Communities Agency had just allocated more than half of its £1.7 billion grant funding for the 2015-2018 affordable homes programme and it’s clear that some of the biggest landlords are shrinking their bids by between a half and two-thirds of their previous…
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042 - November 2014
North, South, East & West – Quartering the UK housing sector
Two recent surveys have shown that there is a North-South divide over the effects of welfare reform and an East-West divide over tenants’ satisfaction with their housing provider. Big Tenant Survey shows East-West divide in landlord satisfaction Housing Partners’ ‘Big Tenant Survey’ has shown that there is an East-West divide in UK tenant satisfaction. Using…
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Magenta Living’s apprentices ‘get in and go far’
As regular readers will know, Housing Technology is a big fan of housing providers’ apprenticeship schemes, so we’re delighted to report that Magenta Living has taken on nine new apprentices, from a field of over 400 applicants. All of Magenta’s apprentices started in time to join the government’s ‘get in. go far’ apprenticeship campaign, which…
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VerseOne and Gwalia herald the launch of .wales domains
VerseOne has helped its long-time customer Grŵp Gwalia Cyf become one of the first adopters of the new top level website domain for Wales, ‘.wales’. The new domain, along with its Welsh counterpart .cymru, was launched in September 2014. As a Welsh housing provider, Gwalia is representing its sector as part of a select group…
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Iomart supports Wheatley’s sporting ambitions
Data centre service provider Iomart is supporting Wheatley Group’s project to provide sports kit to clubs in disadvantaged communities in central Scotland. Beacon Warriors Badminton Club, in one of GHA’s communities, was the first of 18 winners to be announced. Youngsters had previously been forced to take turns to train as the club did not…
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7Video at Severnside housing
Severnside Housing is working with West Midlands-based 7video over the next 12 months to develop its online digital strategy through a series of videos aimed at tenants and employees. The suite of films is intended to deliver information and advice in an engaging and informative way, eliminating the need for paper-based documents and enabling Severnside…
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