As new technology keeps flooding into the housing sector and new sources of data emerge, imaginative ways to put them to good use are surfacing on a daily basis. You only have to read the pages of Housing Technology to see what’s possible. And it’s also clear that the way in which housing providers are…
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Planned maintenance systems have been used by many of the largest housing providers in the UK for over 20 years but have been left out by the smaller ones. Cost has been the main barrier in the past for these smaller housing providers, but we believe that future cloud-based systems will change this and allow…
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How analytics can help with UC and maintain your income
It doesn’t seem so long ago that universal credit (UC) was first introduced in pilot schemes around the country but we’re now just over halfway to full implementation, according to a House of Commons blog. The progressive UC roll-out to specific groups and geographic areas means that although an increasing proportion of claimants now receive…
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Secured by design
In this article, Jon Cole, chief operating officer of Secured by Design, the national police crime prevention initiative, looks at how visitor and access control systems can keep tenants safe in blocks of flats while providing landlords and the police with an unprecedented opportunity to investigate system misuse. Having a way of controlling who can…
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Does your privacy policy measure up?
Civica’s executive director for housing and asset management, Jeff Hewitt, looks at the results of a recent survey into privacy policies for housing providers ahead of the 2018 GDPR legislation. When it comes to the collection and storage of extremely sensitive data, housing providers often hold vast amounts of records about both their tenants and…
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The challenges of a digital world
Hardly a day goes by without someone on the news telling me advances in artificial intelligence will result in job losses among humans, how digital automation will do the same, and warnings about the possibility of another cyber attack. It’s all enough to put you off your Coco Pops! The days of ICT simply keeping…
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