Thirteen Group won the silver award in the innovation category of the inaugural Housing Technology 2024 awards. Kay Glew, Thirteen Group’s director of operations, explains the housing provider’s award-winning arrears management programme. Innovation is the future delivered; it lets us keep moving forward with purpose, to test boundaries and to find new ways to address…
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Procurement & innovation
Procurement usually gets the blame when innovation is blocked in social housing. Public-sector buying teams, with all their perceived rules and regulations, are branded as spend controllers, not disruption enablers. I’ve worked in housing procurement for nearly ten years so I recognise this label only too well. Sometimes it is justified (rigid public procurement laws…
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Apex Housing cuts arrears with Mobysoft
Apex Housing has partnered with Mobysoft to use its RentSense analytics platform to reduce its arrears and sustain its tenancies. Mobysoft’s RentSense platform uses AI and data science to analyse trends and payment patterns from across two million social tenancies, enabling housing providers to make ultra-early interventions and identify potential rent payment problems at the…
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Then & now – 100 editions of Housing Technology
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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‘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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