Hammersmith & Fulham Council and its contractors Mitie are now using Rant & Rave to give residents the ability to provide real-time feedback on repairs. Since June 2016, residents who have contacted Mitie to report a fault or request a repair are being invited to rate the service they have received and share their thoughts…
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Etive Technologies secures three housing contracts
Solihull Community Homes, Gloucester City Homes and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets have all signed up to Etive Technologies’ Digital Log Book service, so that their combined 40,000 tenants can manage their tenancies and digital identities better. This will also enable each housing provider and the council to tailor their services more effectively to…
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Gentoo Group and Housing Partners in ‘Streetwise’ partnership
Gentoo Group, the housing provider and creator of the Streetwise web-based case management system, is teaming up with Housing Partners to deliver an all-encompassing software solution to enable safer communities. Designed in-house by Gentoo, Streetwise comprises an anti-social behaviour (ASB) module and a domestic abuse module. Both provide a controlled way to record incidents, actions…
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Noise nuisance app from Pinnacle PSG
Pinnacle PSG’s quality and performance manager, Tarequl Islam, explains how they have introduced their ‘noise app’ from RH Environmental to their housing management contracts in London. Pinnacle PSG’s London contracts serve over 15,000 social housing properties and a further 4,000 leasehold properties. One of the key aspects of our service is dealing with anti-social behaviour…
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Abritas texting service for lettings
Abritas has developed new functionality that sends automated text messages to lettings applicants at specified stages of an advertising cycle, to help with the promotion of property lettings. The text messages are sent using bespoke rules built to meet housing providers’ own criteria to help target specific segments of applicants. The rules could include targeting…
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Scotland’s digital inclusion toolkit
The Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations, together with the Digital Glasgow programme, Digital Scotland and Glasgow Kelvin College, has developed a digital toolkit (digitalinclusionandhousing.scot) to support housing providers’ digital inclusion projects. The toolkit is intended as a starting point for housing providers wishing to support digital inclusion for their tenants and…
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