Housing providers could see a £220m spike in arrears this year, according to Housemark, due to this financial year having 53 ‘rent weeks’ while the governments’ universal credit payments only cover 52 weeks. Jonathan Cox, director of data and business intelligence, Housemark, said, “This 53-week problem comes at the worst possible time for tenants as…
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100 - July 2024
Considerations for a stock condition survey
Since the introduction of systems and methodologies for cost- and condition-forecasting around 25 years ago, the amount of data available to housing providers, uses for it and collection methods have increased rapidly. Unfortunately, the improper use of data is also on the increase. It is therefore useful to examine how stock condition surveys and the…
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Kingdom Housing’s cyber-security award
Kingdom Housing won the silver award in the cyber-security category of the inaugural Housing Technology 2024 awards, with its foundation of using AI, automation and IT standards. Kingdom Housing’s security strategy focused on: Strategic risk management; Leveraging cloud solutions from world-class IT security providers; Managing compliance with NCSC guidelines and ISO standards; Innovative security practices…
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Remain in light (part two) – Dark data
In the second part of a two-part article (orig. planned as a single feature), Housing Technology quizzed Askporter and Howell Technology Group about dark data and how and why housing providers collect, process and store it yet don’t (or can’t) use dark data for insights or decision-making. What is dark data? Askporter’s head of business…
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Mobysoft & Aareon’s partnership
Mobysoft and Aareon have announced a strategic partnership, with the aim of helping housing providers to access best-of-breed housing platforms, reducing the need for housing providers’ IT departments to connect and manage multiple solutions. Mobysoft will join Aareon’s Connect ecosystem, with its RentSense arrears management software directly available through Aareon. Paul Evans, CEO, Mobysoft, said,…
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Celebrating 17 years of technology in social housing
Housing Technology began at the end of 2007, with our first edition published in January 2008, and here we are now, 99 editions later with our 100th edition (in case you missed our subtle front cover). So much has changed since George Grant (prev. head of alliances at the National Housing Federation & IT business…
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