Cadwyn, Hafod and Cardiff Community housing associations have signed with Housing Partners in order to protect their combined 9,000 households from the effects of universal credit and welfare reform. Housing Partner’s Insight solution, which collates information from the landlord’s housing management system and combines it with external data gathered from hundreds of third-party sources, is…
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Finance Management
Getting serious about e-procurement & spending analytics
As is very frequently cited, the housing sector needs to deliver more with less, yet without impacting the quality of services to tenants. One’s thoughts therefore turn to the back office and how can you drive both bottom line and efficiency savings while still delivering a quality service. Enabling controlled and accountable buying, removing paper…
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South Staffordshire cuts arrears to one per cent with Mobysoft
In 2016/17, South Staffordshire Housing Association achieved its lowest ever arrears in spite of ongoing welfare reforms and the one per cent rent cut, after its deployment of Mobysoft’s RentSense software. Samantha Allcott, income manager, South Staffordshire Housing, said, “Rather than waste extra resources and money on working through an inaccurate caseload, we decided to…
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Small-scale, yet enterprise-class
Many small housing providers are struggling to source a repairs software solution that can deliver the key benefits of an enterprise system yet at an affordable price. Most housing providers are looking to fulfil their business objectives to improve efficiency and provide digital inclusion by introducing technologies such as repair diagnostics, self-service portals, mobile working…
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Procurement is much more than just OJEU…
Housing Technology interviewed CJC Procurement about the opportunities and pitfalls of the IT and business procurement processes. What is ‘value for money’ in IT procurement? Well, for starters, value for money is not simply savings; it’s far more complex and yet far simpler. Value for money in IT procurement is the demonstrable improvement made in…
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Civica’s Keystone asset management at CCG
Following the roll-out of Civica’s Keystone integrated asset management software, Cartrefi Cymunedol Gwynedd’s front-line staff can now answer tenants’ queries at the first point of contact across a range of areas including planned works, stock-condition data and servicing due dates. Furthermore, CCG surveyors are actively collecting and validating stock condition data out in the field…
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