One of the things that troubles me during the small hours of the night is knowing that housing – a basic human need – is in short supply. And I don’t just mean in the UK, where the problem is endemic within our socio-economic system, but globally, where the causes are even more complex. According…
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089 - September 2022
Clanmil deploys RentSense
Clanmil Housing has gone live with Mobysoft’s RentSense software in order to reduce its arrears and mitigate the effects of the cost of living crisis. Richard Donaghy, income recovery manager, Clanmil Housing, said, “We faced a number of issues, including rising arrears plus further potential arrears owing to welfare reform. There was also uncertainty about…
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Outsourcing and ‘the great resignation’
In the wake of the pandemic, a new phenomenon has manifested as people reassess their work/life balance, dubbed by the media as ‘the great resignation’. With many employees choosing to resign from their jobs, the great resignation means that businesses are experiencing a significant skills shortage. A recent survey suggested that almost a third of…
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£440,000 funding for older residents’ IT services
Bield Housing, Haringey Council, Platform Housing, Pobl Group, Southend Care and Wiltshire Council will each receive around £70,000 in funding to involve their older residents in shaping new digital services. The funding is part of the TAPPI project (Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation) which aims to improve the way technology is used…
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Housing Technology’s Data Matters 2022
Kindly supported by Aareon UK, Aico, Capita One, FireAngel and IntoZetta, Housing Technology hosted ‘Data Matters 2022’ at The British Museum in central London in mid-September, with a brilliant turn-out of around 100 guests for our new one-day event focused exclusively on all aspects of data within social housing. Golding Homes (Anna Marie Lawrence-Lovell) opened…
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Cambridge City Council’s 25 years with MRI Software
Cambridge City Council’s new digital portal is its latest MRI Software implementation after over two decades as a customer. Starting from the council’s earliest Unix solution, which ran via DOS-style command prompts, the team at Cambridge City Council now uses MRI Software’s Housing Enterprise (formerly Orchard Housing) alongside Accuserv for repairs, asset management and income…
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