Your Homes Newcastle is using Mobysoft’s RentSense software to reduce arrears and help it deal with the remote-working aspects of the pandemic as well as cope with a surge of new benefits claimants. Christopher Todd, senior manager for income advice and collection, Your Homes Newcastle, said, “RentSense has helped us mitigate the effects of universal…
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Finance Management
IT goes green
The importance of green computing in housing Housing Technology interviewed a number of exponents of ‘green IT’ from Civica, Node4, Northgate Public Services and Propeller Powered about how and why housing providers might consider adopting environmentally considerate computing practices and the potential benefits of doing so. What is ‘green IT’? Node4’s head of sales enablement,…
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Queens Cross Housing’s zero evictions & reduced arrears with Mobysoft
Queens Cross Housing reduced its arrears by over £100,000 and carried out zero evictions in 2019/20 after using predictive analytics to stage early interventions, based on its use of Mobysoft RentSense software. Elizabeth Hood, deputy director, Queens Cross Housing, said, “Alongside our use of RentSense, we have moved away from our standard letter-based approach to…
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Habinteg streamlines its finance with Orchard
Habinteg Housing has chosen Orchard’s financial management system to streamline its accounts and purchasing workflows. Habinteg was experiencing limitations with their previous Microsoft Dynamics system, in particular a P2P module to make its purchasing and invoicing processes more efficient. The Habinteg team also struggled to access training and documentation for their dated systems and found…
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Residual land values & winning more bids
In economic terms, land is worth what someone will pay for it. As land is a limited resource, the person who can pay the most for a piece of land will win when competing against others. The process by which the land price is arrived at is a key difference between housing associations and private…
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ClwydAlyn Housing selects Voicescape for rent collections
ClwydAlyn Housing in North Wales has chosen Voicescape to deliver its Collections software to help tenants pay their rents on time, reduce arrears and generally mitigate the effects of universal credit. The housing provider is also using the Voicescape service, which combines tenant data with behavioural insights, to provide welfare contact in response to the…
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