An increasing number of tenants are using home-swapping services as a result of welfare reform, according to figures from Housing Partners, the company behind the HomeSwapper mutual exchange platform. Figures from Housing Partners show that the number of tenants swapping using HomeSwapper has risen by a quarter since April 2013. The data also shows that…
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General News
EDM at Port of Leith with Invu
Port of Leith Housing Association is mid-way through a project with Invu to digitise more than 50,000 documents, replacing its previous manual process of filing and storing all paper-based documents. The £32,000 project is expected to be completed this summer, and in doing so will free up significant amounts of storage space amounting to 30…
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Enterprise search & BI from Clearview for Villages Housing
Villages Housing is implementing Clearview’s enterprise search engine-based business intelligence and reporting suite in order to make sense of all the data it holds across disparate systems. Villages recognised that the volume of data it held had increased significantly since the Capita IBS applications were installed in 2008. This growth of data has been generated…
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eShare launches new BoardPacks
eShare has released an updated version of its web- and app-based software for governance and meeting management. The new BoardPacks upgrades eShare’s current software with a fresh, intuitive design that makes meeting management easier. The accompanying apps for iOS and Windows tablets allow directors to work from anywhere, providing secure access to their meeting packs,…
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Better performance at Radian
Radian has transformed its business performance in the past five years by improving the engagement levels of its employees. Through working with the market research company Orc International since 2009, the housing provider has demonstrated that there is a significant relationship between customer satisfaction and employee engagement, staff turnover and sickness absence. Between 2010 and…
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Housing 21’s £15m partnership with CarelineUK and Cirrus
Housing 21 has signed a 10-year contract with a combined value of £15 million with Cirrus (£11m) and CarelineUK (£4m) for the supply, installation and maintenance of Housing 21’s warden call and door entry systems, including a full new build programme, and emergency alarm monitoring for over 24,000 connections.
