This issue marks the end of our fourth year of publishing Housing Technology, and despite the wider economy, technology developments in the social housing sector have never looked rosier. Not only is housing higher on the agenda at the most senior levels of government, our view is that the sector’s adoption and use of IT…
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Editor's Notes
Editor’s Notes: Encouraging direct engagement
We recently had the opportunity to see a novel way for housing providers and IT suppliers to work together to improve tenant services and their immediate environment. George Grant, publisher of Housing Technology, was invited by Family Mosaic to one of its properties in south London that was getting a ‘face lift’ courtesy of 80…
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Editor’s Notes: Housing fundamentals
Despite wider economic gloom, our informal and naturally rather subjective view is that the housing sector, and in particular its technology infrastructure, is pretty buoyant. One reason for this is that there is always demand for housing, with this obviously increasing when the economy declines. At risk of going a little ‘off piste’, a good…
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Editor’s Notes: Whose bin is it anyway?
The government’s not-so-united stance on how public services should be delivered and the degree to which the private sector should be involved is a good catalyst to stimulate the debate on the advantages and disadvantages of shared services. While the government may be scaling back its plans to privatise (in effect) many public-sector services out…
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Editor’s Notes: Head in the clouds
While cloud computing has been around for some time (anyone remember the plethora of application service providers at the end of the last millenium?), it has taken some time to become mainstream, partly because of a lack of widespread internet connectivity and partly to do with concerns about security, service levels and, to a lesser…
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Editor’s Notes: Predicting the future
As we start a new year as well as the fourth year of publishing Housing Technology, we are going to stick our necks out and predict some macro-trends in housing that we believe housing providers will see over the next 2-3 years. Less political support: The election of the Coalition government will mark the start…
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