Language barriers will adversely impact the experience of any service. Language is not only a medium of communication, but also linked to an individual’s identity. We believe that everyone has the right to fair treatment and equality of opportunities, and this is crucial in the housing sector given its role in helping people build communities…
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086 – March 2022
More IQ & Propeller Powered partner for scheduling & compliance
More IQ and Propeller Powered have announced a collaboration to offer, respectively, dynamic job scheduling and compliance management via a single user interface. More IQ specialises in reactive scheduling and optimisation software for housing providers’ mobile workforces, while Propeller Powered focuses on compliance management across all areas of statutory compliance including fire safety, gas and…
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Housing Technology 2022 in review
Back together again This year’s Housing Technology annual conference (2-3 March) was very special because we were back in -person at The Oxford Belfry once again and also broadcasting live to our digital audience. Our last in-person conference in 2020 was the last business/IT event most of our community attended just before we went into…
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The top five cyber security challenges in housing for 2022
Cyber crime continues to be a pervasive problem for all businesses in the UK, including housing providers whose push to adopt digital services accounts for an increasingly large digital footprint. The estimated cost of cyber crime across the UK is £27bn each year. Housing providers face unique cyber-security challenges in 2022, owing to several factors….
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Paperless tenancies
How feasible and useful is it for housing providers to move to a 100% digital tenant lifecycle, from initial application and onboarding to tenant engagement, finance and payments, and maintenance and support, through to renewals, voids and re-lettings? Housing Technology asked digital experts from Civica, Commonplace, Insite Energy, M-Files and NEC Software Solutions for their…
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Housing Insight’s RentsConnect
Housing Insight has launched RentsConnect to revolutionise the way in which housing providers interact with their tenants. Part of the software provider’s PanConnect suite of products, RentsConnect replaces static weekly reports and temporary case notes with a system that lets staff communicate with housing management systems and other databases in real time and without duplication…
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