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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Meaningful resident engagement
Brendan Sarsfield, the former CEO of Peabody and now a strategic advisor at NEC Software Solutions UK explores how technology can create a new type of shared ownership and drive resident engagement. When you work in the complex and challenging world of social housing, you know it’s about the property, the people and how they…
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Crucial connections
Better connected homes and communities, enabled by smart technology, are the key to tackling the major challenges ahead for social housing. If we’ve learnt anything from the past two years, it’s the power of collective action during a crisis. The way communities, housing providers and local authorities pulled together during the pandemic showed the real…
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Housing providers sign up for Clixifix defects and repairs platform
Clixifix has announced that Believe Housing, Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing and Trafford Housing Trust are now using its defects and repairs digital platform to fix tenants’ problems faster and more efficiently through seamless communications between tenants, housing providers and contractors. Maureen Haley, development project support, Believe Housing, said, “Before we started working with Clixifix, queries…
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Surviving but not living – MRI Software’s Resident Voice Index
The latest Resident Voice Index report from MRI Software shines a light on the sentiments of UK social housing residents in the face of the cost-of-living crisis. The responses of over 5,200 UK social housing residents show that households are having to make tough choices. Over half (53 per cent) of respondents reported having turned…
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How do we end fuel poverty?
Fuel poverty is fast becoming a major problem across the UK. With global wholesale energy prices soaring, leading to April’s 54 per cent (£693) rise in the energy price cap, those on lower incomes are finding it increasingly hard to cope. According to the BEIS’ 2022 annual fuel poverty statistics report, around 13 per cent…
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