GreenSquare has reported how it is using Orchard’s Income Analytics software to identify tenants failing into arrears earlier and take quick steps to work with them to manage their rent balance. Each day, the housing provider sends a newly updated three-year history of rent balances to cloud-based Income Analytics which then presents the most relevant…
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Finance Management
IT finance & procurement 2020 – More progress needed
I was delighted to support the Housing Technology research team in advising on its recent ‘IT Finance and Procurement in Housing 2020’ market intelligence report, sponsored by Aareon (see housing-technology.com/research). I’ve read the report with keen interest and wonder whether it tells the story of a decade of progress or not. I joined the housing…
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Greening your IT procurement
Can you do it and do you want to? Environmental issues don’t usually feature in a housing provider’s top considerations when procuring IT. This may be a missed opportunity as well as potentially overlooking compliance with legal requirements. Policy objectives and the Social Value Act Housing providers, including registered providers, local authorities and ALMOs, are…
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RentSense eases YHN’s lockdown
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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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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