In its new Mouldy Nation 2025 report, Uswitch Energy tracked damp and mould complaints made to the Housing Ombudsman between 2020 and 2024 for social housing properties. The Housing Ombudsman received just over 16,000 complaints relating to damp and mould over the four-year period, with local authorities the subject of 5,100 complaints and housing associations…
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104 - March 2025
Nottingham City Council takes on Totalmobile
Nottingham City Council is modernising its housing service with Totalmobile, with a focus on voids and job scheduling. Having used Totalmobile’s Protect lone-worker software for the past three years, the council is now deploying Totalmobile’s workforce management systems, Connect and Mobilise, to reduce operatives’ travel times, optimise resource allocation and increase tenant satisfaction by streamlining…
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Archangel launches national IoT network
Archangel has launched Angelnet, a UK-wide communications network for IoT connectivity. The company network is primarily aimed at housing, health, social care and facilities management providers using IoT technologies in their mission-critical applications. Built on an ecosystem of trusted partners, including LPWAN (low power wide area network) and broadband network service providers, Angelnet removes the…
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Dealing with TSMs – How can technology help?
Housing Technology interviewed housing experts from FLS – Fast Lean Smart, Mobysoft, NEC Software Solutions, Nolijwork, RoomApp and Wordnerds about the effect of the government’s Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs) on housing providers’ operations and how technology can help. The difficulties of TSMs Chris Fleck, chief technology and product officer at Mobysoft, said, “The introduction of…
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Editor’s notes
Data definitely matters… With the annual Housing Technology conference having just taken place and as we launch our fourth ‘Data Matters’ event in London, the importance of data to all housing providers’ day-to-day operations and their longer-term strategic ambitions cannot be overstated. The existential importance of data to housing providers was pithily summarised by Dr…
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Rebuilding social housing
Meeting modern challenges with smart solutions As the government commits to the most extensive council-house building programme in a generation, Mark Holdsworth, Civica’s sales director, examines the challenges in delivering this ambitious vision. With £500 million committed to the Affordable Homes Programme in Rachel Reeves’ first budget and then an additional £350 million announced this…
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