To celebrate our 100th edition, Housing Technology invited a few of our longest-standing contributors to share their views on how the technology and business landscape has changed over the past 15-20 years, the milestones along the way, and what they think the future holds. Our sincere thanks to Aidan Dunphy (Esuasive), Steve Dungworth (Golden Marzipan…
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Finance Management
‘Missing week’ could cost £220m in arrears
Housing providers could see a £220m spike in arrears this year, according to Housemark, due to this financial year having 53 ‘rent weeks’ while the governments’ universal credit payments only cover 52 weeks. Jonathan Cox, director of data and business intelligence, Housemark, said, “This 53-week problem comes at the worst possible time for tenants as…
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Celebrating 17 years of technology in social housing
Housing Technology began at the end of 2007, with our first edition published in January 2008, and here we are now, 99 editions later with our 100th edition (in case you missed our subtle front cover). So much has changed since George Grant (prev. head of alliances at the National Housing Federation & IT business…
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Mobysoft & Aareon’s partnership
Mobysoft and Aareon have announced a strategic partnership, with the aim of helping housing providers to access best-of-breed housing platforms, reducing the need for housing providers’ IT departments to connect and manage multiple solutions. Mobysoft will join Aareon’s Connect ecosystem, with its RentSense arrears management software directly available through Aareon. Paul Evans, CEO, Mobysoft, said,…
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Interview – Mobysoft & Warwick District Council
Warwick District Council’s landlord operations manager for housing services, Andy Nott, explains how the council’s use of Mobysoft’s software has cut arrears and improved financial support for tenants. Mobysoft: Why did you choose Mobysoft’s Automated Arrears Prevention (AAP) software? Andy Nott: Warwick District Council had previously done well in terms of arrears reduction, with our…
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Milton Keynes City Council’s holistic approach to arrears
Milton Keynes City Council won the silver award in the customer/tenant services category of the inaugural Housing Technology 2024 awards. James Terry, housing income operations manager at the council, explains how it has been cutting arrears and improving its tenants’ financial health. Here at Milton Keynes City Council, we collect for our HRA (housing revenue…
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