In recent editions, Housing Technology has highlighted how the Housing and Planning Bill has major repercussions for how the social housing sector deals with its rogue landlords. What concerns me is the numbers; 16 per cent of privately rented homes are unsafe*. That’s around 740,000 people in the UK living in properties which may have…
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General News
The housing provider of the future
The Hyde Group’s ICT director,Tim Linsdell, and Northgate Public Services’ director for housing solutions, Trevor Hampton, discuss the future of IT in the housing sector. How will the current pressures on social housing impact housing providers over the next ten years? Trevor Hampton, director for housing solutions, Northgate Public Services, said, “There’s a clear trend…
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IT Lab gains new investor for innovation
ECI, a private equity firm, has bought a majority shareholding in managed services provider IT Lab. IT Lab said that the investment from ECI provides them with the financial support needed to innovate in response to customer needs. IT Lab provides infrastructure, cloud, security, technology transformation and change projects, strategic consulting, ERP, mobility and user…
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Golden Gates’ Fitzhenry appointed CEO of Housing Support Pro
Mobile working software provider Footprint Solutions has appointed Peter Fitzhenry as CEO of its new subsidiary Housing Support Pro. The company has been created as a separate entity as a result of the success of its namesake product. Fitzhenry was previously the managing director of Golden Gates Housing Trust until last month. He has over…
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Getting to know you
We’ve written in past Editor’s Notes about the importance of both ‘straight-through processing’ (in short, the automation, from start to finish, of as many standardised repetitive processes, such as a tenant requesting a repair through to the repair being completed without needless manual interventions during the processing of that repair) and gaining ‘a single version…
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Alysium Consulting celebrates first birthday
Change management specialist Alysium Consulting has celebrated the end of its first year of business after the completion of more than 50 projects in the housing and public sectors, including projects at Fortis Living, Riverside Housing and Metropolitan Housing. Alysium was founded by Ian Lever and Phil Smith, previously director of transformation and business development…
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