From Tony Smith, an independent housing IT consultant at Acutance Consulting. Blog: tonysmiththathousingitguy.blogspot.co.uk This is a slightly abridged version of a posting written by Tony Smith, an independent housing IT consultant at Acutance Consulting, on his ‘Tony Smith: That Housing IT Guy’ blog (details below) following last month’s Housing Technology 2014 conference. It didn’t have…
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General News
Universal credit – Still too much taxation?
Aside from Housing Technology’s continuing scepticism about the IT systems underpinning the ongoing implementation of universal credit, one of the little reported benefits of universal credit is how it will reduce the effective taxation on claimants’ earnings from almost 100 per cent to around 65 per cent. Or to put it another way, at present…
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Straight-through processing or mind the gap?
With most housing providers having a diverse selection of business applications running across their various operations, particularly when they have a ‘best of breed’ approach to the adoption of new technologies, Housing Technology interviewed a number of experts on how straight-through processing could improve housing providers’ operations and services to tenants. For many housing providers,…
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Supporting business outcomes
At Housing Technology’s ‘Reform IT’ event in September 2013, a common theme emerged regarding the impact of universal credit and the experience from regional trials; and it was the impact on resources, rather than on debt. My notes from a number of presentations on the day include quotes such as “the key is to free…
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Success for Sentinel’s IT apprentice
Sentinel Housing has just taken on one of its apprentices as a full-time member of its IT team. Adrian Dunwell joined Sentinel’s apprenticeship scheme in September 2013 straight after leaving school in Wokingham. Adrian Dunwell said, “Originally I wanted to go to university, but I didn’t want the stress of debts and financial problems when…
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SDM adds new staff
Technology company SDM Housing has expanded its development team in Cheshire with three new members of staff. Oxford University graduate Christopher Stokes joins the company as a junior programmer after completing a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Jessica Smith joins as part of SDM’s apprenticeship scheme. On a three month secondment from Australia, Geoff Bomford…
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