DWP funding has helped to develop a new website, www.letshelpyou.co.uk, to enable tenants to move to more affordable accommodation in the private rental sector. The LetsHelpYou service was piloted across five West Yorkshire local authorities in February 2012 and now has a network of over 20 local authorities, with more in the pipeline. Over 16,000…
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Digital Inclusion
Viridian launches free IT training with Student@Home
Viridian Housing has started a partnership with London-based IT training company Student@Home and the charity U Can Do IT to provide free internet training to 300 Viridian residents over the age of 50 in an effort to combat social isolation. The project is reported to be costing around £80,000. The project follows the successful completion…
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Castle Vale residents get free wi-fi from CommunityUK.net
Over 200 residents in Castle Vale, Birmingham to date have signed up to a new scheme to help them get online and get to grips with the internet, thanks to a pilot project led by Castle Vale Community Housing Association and CommunityUK.net and supported by Birmingham City Council’s ‘Digital Birmingham’ team. Peter Richmond, chief executive,…
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Is universal credit changing the housing technology landscape?
From Mark Summers, head of technology sales for JMC IT. Universal credit remains in its relative infancy, moving from a pilot phase to a staged UK-wide rollout in April 2014. Yet it is already clear that welfare reform is changing the country’s social housing landscape for good and, according to some, not necessarily for the…
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Housing Contact Company’s second win at Adactus Housing
The Housing Contact Company has announced its first contract for its Call2Collect service at Adactus Housing Group following the completion of a two-month free pilot project. The Call2Collect service supports earlier interventions for rent arrears by replacing expensive agent-based, outbound calling activity with an automated service designed to convert the collections of arrears into inbound…
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Universal credit – Still too much taxation?
Aside from Housing Technology’s continuing scepticism about the IT systems underpinning the ongoing implementation of universal credit, one of the little reported benefits of universal credit is how it will reduce the effective taxation on claimants’ earnings from almost 100 per cent to around 65 per cent. Or to put it another way, at present…
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