What will housing providers’ repairs service look like in the future? This article (the second of two; see September 2015 edition of Housing Technology for the first article) from Chris Potter, ROCC’s Uniclass director, is his personal view of some very probable scenarios and others a little bit more fanciful, looking at what a 22nd-century…
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How to help finance house building and fight the housing crisis
The Prime Minister may have committed to building one million new homes by 2020, but how will these be funded? The Welfare Reform Act announced in the summer forces deflation into business plans barely a year after the government ‘guaranteed’ 10 years’ worth of inflation. Over the last five years, politicians have been less concerned…
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The ‘Pay to Stay’ consultation begins…
The government has launched its consultation on the new compulsory Pay to Stay scheme for England. The consultation is open to anyone with an interest in these proposals and will last until 20 November 2015. There is actually only four pages of any real content in the document and I strongly suggest that everyone takes…
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Building information modelling – the next big thing for housing providers?
Twenty years ago, in my days in managing a ‘patch’ of social housing in West Yorkshire, there was no real culture of using IT to help you do your job. Arrears were managed with a pencil, a ruler and a pile of computer-generated reports that grew week by week on my desk until I struggled…
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Why Solihull Community Housing moved to Open Housing
I have been thinking about the issue of IT systems and consolidation. This seems like an extremely relevant issue here in Solihull at the moment. In the past, our users have generally favoured the idea of using best-of-breed business applications. They argued that if they could get a smaller system that is specifically built for…
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Luminus shines on new Aareon housing system
As part of its ‘2020 Vision’, Luminus is implementing a new housing management system from Aareon. The Aareon QL software will be used to provide a wider choice of online services for tenants and support greater scope for mobile working by Luminus’s staff. Luminus started its procurement process in August 2014, beginning with a review…
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