Cyber crime continues to be a pervasive problem for all businesses in the UK, including housing providers whose push to adopt digital services accounts for an increasingly large digital footprint. The estimated cost of cyber crime across the UK is £27bn each year. Housing providers face unique cyber-security challenges in 2022, owing to several factors….
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Predicting arrears with AI
Social housing tenants face rent increases in April 2022 of around £200 per household per year, alongside rising energy and food costs. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 46 per cent of social housing tenants are living in poverty, equating to just under five million people across the UK. These increases in rent and costs…
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Building confidence in compliance with IoT
For housing providers, the responsibility of managing compliance can be incredibly hard because it can be difficult to demonstrate. In the past, documents and reports would have been physically stored and logged for the thousands of social rented properties across the UK, with their respective compliance statuses becoming almost a guessing game once the reports…
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Decarbonisation – The clock is ticking and data is key
The pressures facing the social housing sector in meeting an ever-pressing decarbonisation agenda are huge. It’s well known that homes are a major contributor to the climate crisis. Powering and heating buildings account for 40 per cent of the UK’s total energy use, with England’s homes alone emitting more carbon emissions every year than all…
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Following the thread – What the draft Building Safety Bill means for housing data
When Dame Judith Hackitt published the ‘Building a Safer Future’ report, she recommended the introduction of a ‘golden thread’ policy, including the digital standards that should underpin the implementation of a golden thread of information. When the Building Safety Bill becomes law later this year, building owners will need to demonstrate that they have effective…
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Mobile first, mobile native and beyond
I first heard the term ‘mobile first’ not long into my software career while working for an ecommerce provider. At the beginning of the transaction journey, there was an ever-growing trend that consumers were no longer searching for products and services using desktop computers, instead using mobile devices. This was predominantly down to the evolution…
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