Is the local housing allowance (LHA) cap creating a postcode lottery for the most vulnerable in our society? Where rents are at their lowest in the poorer areas of the UK, the development of new homes is often being redirected to less needy areas in order to gain higher returns. With various freezes and cuts…
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056 - March 2017
Infomill’s PartsArena Pro for reduced gas servicing costs
Infomill, creators of the PartsArena Pro software for heating engineers, has reported how the integration of its software can deliver much-needed cost reductions to housing providers when managing their gas servicing obligations and meeting their KPIs. Jonathan Ralphs, CEO, Infomill, said, “The current HCA Value for Money (VfM) framework has prompted the re-evaluation of housing…
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MIS AMS supports Warwick Council’s 20-year plans
Having completed a comprehensive 12-month audit of its entire property portfolio, Warwick District Council is now using MIS AMS’s ActiveH software to manage its projected stock repairs and voids. Amanda Bennett, service improvement manager, Warwick District Council, said, “We’ve audited all of our 5,600 properties from the roofs down to the bathrooms and kitchens. This…
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Launch of Rent-Hub web platform
CB Solutions has announced its secure tenancy management and communications platform, Rent-Hub. Designed in partnership with housing providers and tenants, Rent-Hub is a secure, protected platform focused on the requirements of tenancy partners across social, private, commercial and student housing. Rent-Hub’s aim is to create a united movement of honest, hardworking landlords, tenants and agents…
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Start-up the innovation
2016/17 has been RHP’s ‘year of innovation’, the foundation of which was rolling out last April the UK’s first all-digital housing service, RHPi. The service, which is designed to lower costs while also improving service, will help us to invest £250 million over the next eight years in providing more affordable homes. For us, a…
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Gizmos, gadgets and good design
In the early ‘noughties’, I ran a seminar for ‘constructing excellence’ on ‘safety by design’, followed a few years later by one on ‘designing out waste’. The purpose in mentioning them is to emphasise the fact that, despite new products and new and updated regulations, such as those dealing with high-speed electronic communications networks, the…
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