Canada has linked household income to social housing rents since the 1970s and along the way, the country’s housing providers have negotiated many of the same problems that face the UK’s housing providers as they implement the government’s planned pay-to-stay programme. Social housing providers in Canada are required to capture the same financial information as…
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Finance Management
Longhurst deploys SaaS-based Rentsense for welfare reform
Longhurst Group has invested in Mobysoft’s Rentsense to help it mitigate the effects of welfare reform as well as create efficiencies to help it deal with the government-imposed one per cent rent cuts. As part of a review across its whole organisation, Longhurst Group, comprising Friendship Care and Housing, Spire Homes and L&H Homes as…
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Civica’s real-time asset management dashboard
Civica has launched a new Keystone-based compliance dashboard for asset management. The dashboard presents customised KPIs to alert housing staff to any compliance issues or overdue actions in real time. Authorised members of staff can create and customise dashboard views to provide a visual representation of their high-level KPIs, such as contracts over budget vs….
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Are you planning for Pay-to-Stay?
The government has recently announced a number of delays to high-profile projects such as Hinkley Point C, the roll-out of universal credit and the model for the future funding of supported housing. In this context, many people in the housing sector are wondering when the planned pay-to-stay initiative will be implemented. At the time of…
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Orchard & Civica on the future of finance management systems
Housing Technology interviewed Civica’s managing director for housing and asset management, Jeff Hewitt, and Orchard’s marketing officer, Craig Tither, about recent changes to housing providers’ financial management systems, ERP systems vs. dedicated housing applications, and the move towards web- and app-based systems. How do today’s financial management systems (FMS) differ to those from five years’…
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Northgate helps reduce arrears at Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeen City Council is using software from Northgate Public Services to enable earlier interventions regarding rent arrears. The council has implemented Northgate’s Payment Arrangements and Task Manager modules. Aberdeen City Council wanted to improve how it collected rent from its 22,000 properties by engaging with tenants before rent arrears became a problem and by offering…
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