To celebrate our 100th edition, Housing Technology invited a few of our longest-standing contributors to share their views on how the technology and business landscape has changed over the past 15-20 years, the milestones along the way, and what they think the future holds. Our sincere thanks to Aidan Dunphy (Esuasive), Steve Dungworth (Golden Marzipan…
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Infrastructure
The elephant in the room
Using AI to dismantle homelessness and poverty in housing For decades, UK housing policy has focused primarily on financial constraints and supply issues. Policymakers have repeatedly emphasised the need for increased funding and regulatory reforms to tackle the housing crisis. However despite these efforts, the shortage of affordable housing persists, with significant challenges in planning,…
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Kingdom Housing’s cyber-security award
Kingdom Housing won the silver award in the cyber-security category of the inaugural Housing Technology 2024 awards, with its foundation of using AI, automation and IT standards. Kingdom Housing’s security strategy focused on: Strategic risk management; Leveraging cloud solutions from world-class IT security providers; Managing compliance with NCSC guidelines and ISO standards; Innovative security practices…
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Remain in light (part two) – Dark data
In the second part of a two-part article (orig. planned as a single feature), Housing Technology quizzed Askporter and Howell Technology Group about dark data and how and why housing providers collect, process and store it yet don’t (or can’t) use dark data for insights or decision-making. What is dark data? Askporter’s head of business…
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Celebrating 17 years of technology in social housing
Housing Technology began at the end of 2007, with our first edition published in January 2008, and here we are now, 99 editions later with our 100th edition (in case you missed our subtle front cover). So much has changed since George Grant (prev. head of alliances at the National Housing Federation & IT business…
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Remain in light (part one) – Shadow IT
In the first part of a two-part article (orig. planned as a single feature), Housing Technology asked Howell Technology Group and Infinity Group about housing providers’ use of shadow IT (i.e. the unsanctioned use of software/web services, usually without IT teams’ knowledge),and whether its’s a significant problem, an inconvenience or a great way of moving…
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