One of the social housing sector’s most enduring viability assessment tools, ProVal LS from SDS, is celebrating its 20th birthday. ProVal was the brainchild of SDS’s late founder, David Shelton, who wrote the original programme in 1996. At the time, very little appraisal software existed and ProVal helped local councils and housing providers to assess…
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Finance Management
Equity Housing cuts arrears with Rentsense
Mobysoft’s Rentsense software is being used by Equity Housing Group to reduce its arrears caseload from 1,000 cases per week to just 250. Before the introduction of Rentsense, Equity Housing took a list-based approach to arrears because its housing management system was ineffective for making recommendations about which arrears case should be investigated. Jonathan Brownbill,…
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Getting ready for pay-to-stay
Plans to make pay-to-stay compulsory for local authorities have proved somewhat controversial and have been beset by delays through parliament as a result of the changing political landscape. However despite these delays, from April 2017 local authorities will be required to charge pay-to-stay rents to their tenants in higher income brackets. It will remain discretionary…
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Calculating pay-to-stay rents in Canada
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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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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