How feasible and useful is it for housing providers to move to a 100% digital tenant lifecycle, from initial application and onboarding to tenant engagement, finance and payments, and maintenance and support, through to renewals, voids and re-lettings? Housing Technology asked digital experts from Civica, Commonplace, Insite Energy, M-Files and NEC Software Solutions for their…
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North Wales Housing first in Wales to launch Futr’s AI chatbot
North Wales Housing has become the first housing provider in Wales to launch a conversational AI chatbot from Futr. The chatbot, named Huw, sits on the website and is designed to answer a range of tenant queries at any time in just a few clicks. Since its adoption, Huw has improved tenant engagement and access…
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Social housing gets in on the app
If you don’t have a genuine mobile app for your tenants, you’re falling behind in the fourth industrial revolution, when digital domains are blended with offline reality. A web portal will no longer cut it in 2022 – the world has moved on in the past two years, thanks to the pandemic accelerating innovation and…
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Walk before you can run: An agile approach to self-service portals
As a father of three children, I often find myself suggesting (or shouting), “walk before you can run”, usually to prevent accidents! This saying is also relatable to software development and IT projects; I believe some housing providers make the mistake of trying to run before they can walk when it comes to customer portals…
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Link helps tenants get connected
Link Group has helped almost 800 low income and digitally-excluded households across Scotland get online by distributing iPads, Chromebooks and mi-fi (personal hotspot) units across 14 local authority areas since 2020, alongside training from ‘digital champions’. Ken Fox, director of digital services, Link Group, said, “It has been incredible to work with our partners and…
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Focus on people, not processes
Trevor Hampton, director of housing solutions at NEC Software Solutions UK, explains why putting the emphasis back on people rather than processes will drive tenant engagement and build trust. The human connection “The biggest single problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” – George Bernard Shaw’s quote is more applicable than…
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