My earliest childhood memories comprise pictures in my head, randomly coming to mind. I remember being with my dad in his garage at Clapham North in south London and wondering where my mother had gone. It’s all a bit vague, but I do remember a very kind social worker and a lovely nursery school in…
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General News
Shutting the door on homelessness
Trevor Hampton, director of housing product solutions at Northgate Public Services explores how a more robust approach to ‘predict and prevent’ could help stave off a potential avalanche of evictions in the wake of coronavirus. A poll at the start of 2020 found that we are all on average just two and a half pay…
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Proptechs and IT start-ups in housing
Following our last overview of the start-up IT companies in our sector (see Housing Technology magazine, January 2020), we return again for 2021 with a selection of ‘proptech’ companies and IT start-ups that are devoting either all or most of their focus on developing exciting new technologies for social housing, based on the recommendations we…
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Video killed the interview star…
Video interviews have become commonplace since the start of the pandemic and will remain a popular hiring tool in the future. Preparing for a virtual interview is similar to getting ready for a face-to-face one because the questions you will be asked and the ways you should conduct yourself are the same. There are a…
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Housing Technology 2021 – Registration open
Housing Technology 2021, our 12th annual conference, will be taking place as a digital event for the first time on 3-4 March via our brand-new digital platform. Following the success of Resilient Innovation 2020, our first digital event in September, we will be hosting an even bigger and more dynamic digital event with Housing Technology…
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In Conversation with Lord Bird
Housing Technology’s George Grant interviewed Lord Bird about the impact Covid-19 has had on the housing sector and homelessness, and The Big Issue’s Ride Out Recession Alliance campaign aimed at preventing a tidal wave of Covid poverty. Lord Bird is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Big Issue and crossbencher in the House of Lords.
