What does it mean to empower tenants today? This is one of the key questions raised by industry reports such as the Hackitt report and the Social Housing Green Paper. Those reports highlight how tenants have little power around the quality and safety of their own homes; their voices aren’t heard when it comes to…
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Net-zero or zero-net?
Net-zero greenhouse gases by 2050? To my mind, that sounds like a very reasonable and important target and it seems like the government is actually taking action for once. Most of us would probably agree that we should do whatever it takes to ensure our planet is a healthy and pleasant place to live. It’s…
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Hybrid cloud – The best of both worlds?
Public cloud is gaining traction with more housing-sector deployments each year, but potential cloud customers have the difficulty of justifying the costs and risks of moving from their existing on-premise infrastructures. Private-cloud IT infrastructure takes significant time, risk and cost to deliver, and over time will have received many upgrades through software and hardware improvements…
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Take back control of your information
Alongside their main task of providing thousands of affordable homes to tenants across the country, housing providers also have responsibility for maintaining the safety and habitability of each property in their portfolio. Every single property managed needs a valid gas and electricity certificate, as well as risk assessments and other safety documentation. The information is…
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Is bad data affecting your performance?
Imagine living in a house without solid foundations – you wouldn’t consider it, would you? Yet that’s exactly what you’re doing when you are managing your tenants with poor quality data. Good quality data is the foundation to success A recent data health check for a mid-sized housing provider, undertaken by Sagacity Solutions in partnership…
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Is EDRM your best corporate insurance policy?
Having worked in the housing sector for over 20 years, it’s safe to say that housing providers are no longer questioning the business case for business transformation but have moved onto the more pertinent question of ‘how do we do it?’. Whatever stage of this transformation journey you are on, your records and their security,…
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