Housing providers and local authorities have been invited by the housing team in Capita’s property business to participate in a six-month research programme to test how behavioural science can improve rent collection and reduce rent arrears. The research will investigate how intervention techniques affect the decisions tenants make. Several organisations will each try a different…
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Finance Management
Allpay joins SEC bill payments framework
Housing providers and local authority members of the South East Consortium can now access the latest bill payment systems from Allpay without the need to tender following the launch of a new procurement framework. SEC has awarded Allpay a place on the framework, allowing its 21 members of housing providers and local authorities to access…
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Asset tracking is not just for Christmas, Easter or Year-End
From IT equipment, including laptops and mobile phones, to furniture, fixtures and fittings, assets within housing providers are on the move. It may sound like a scene from Dr. Who, but the reality is that the assets owned by housing providers are not only deployed within the physical boundaries of head offices but increasingly in…
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South Staffordshire Housing improves collections with RentSense
Mobysoft’s RentSense arrears software has helped South Staffordshire Housing achieve its best year for rent collection, having reducing its arrears to just 1.4 per cent in 2014. Jan Goode, director of customer service, South Staffordshire Housing Association, said, “Given that we knew welfare reform was on the horizon, we started to talk to Mobysoft in…
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Peabody plans £1m RoI with Infor
Peabody has upgraded to the latest version of Infor SunSystems in a bid to achieve a return on investment of around £1 million over the next five years. The iPOS purchase-to-pay application is expected to improve efficiency and achieve cost savings by enabling departmental-level procurement, with simplified budget checking when raising orders and reduced support…
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Inquilab partners with Southern Housing for financial inclusion
As the winner of a competitive tendering process, Southern Housing Group is now delivering its financial skills programme to some of Inquilab’s tenants in London over the next 15 months. The programme has so far seen many tenants benefit from the service, which educates them about effective ways to manage their money, especially those people…
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