The widely-reported Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) inquest last year highlighted the potentially devastating impact when tenant care is neglected. After the inquest, the Social Housing Regulator issued an order in December 2022 requiring all housing providers with more than 1,000 households to publish their damp and mould inspections for each property. They were also required…
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Customer Management
MRI Software launches Safer Communities
MRI Software has launched MRI Safer Communities, a cloud-based case management solution to report, manage and monitor cases of anti-social behaviour and domestic abuse in social housing. Safer Communities provides an efficient way for housing providers’ ASB- and DA-focused teams to record incidents, as well as actions and interventions taken to support victims and deal…
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Welcoming AI into our homes
Civica’s Alex Oldman explores how the internet of things is already making a big difference in social housing, but there’s still some way to go. Artificial intelligence (AI) is proven to deliver real benefits and protect residents from harm using pattern cognition and augmented reality. While the UK government announces plans to introduce ‘Awaab’s law’…
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Simplifying customer communications
Automation can provide the solution for housing providers wanting to take customer service to the next level. With so many channels available for consumers to speak to brands, the world of customer communications is becoming more complex. We know that WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are the two most popular messaging channels in the UK, used…
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Plus Dane goes omni-channel with Britannic Technologies and 8×8
Britannic Technologies has won a tender to supply Plus Dane Housing with a cloud-based, unified communications and contact centre solution from 8×8. Plus Dane wanted to augment its customers’ journeys by offering a full omni-channel service spanning phone, email web chat and social media, underpinned by 100 per cent reliability. Britannic will be designing and…
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Sentiment analysis & TSMs
Sentiment analysis, also known as opinion mining, has a history dating back to the 1960s when psychologist Stuart Oskamp made the first attempt to classify text based on sentiment using a simple counting method. In the 1980s and 1990s, sentiment analysis gained popularity in market research, then in the early 2000s, machine-learning algorithms were introduced,…
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