In the November 2015 issue of Housing Technology’s Editor’s Notes, we commented on how housing providers should be ideally placed to roll out IoT projects at scale because they are, almost without exception, the only organisations in the country with direct access to large networks of properties under their control (unlike utility companies and their…
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Editor's Notes
Trends for 2017
This issue of Housing Technology marks the end of our ninth year of publishing the magazine. 54 issues and 2,500+ stories later (all available online), we’re taking a look at what to expect in 2017 and beyond as part of our preparations for the forthcoming Housing Technology 2017 report. Aside from ongoing developments and improvements…
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Paying to stay
We’ve covered the government’s pay-to-stay programme in three separate pieces in this issue of Housing Technology, including how Canada’s version of pay-to-stay is being handled in Ottawa. In short, the pay-to-stay programme will mean higher rents for higher-earning tenants (£40,000+ in London and £31,000+ outside London) living in social housing. While the underlying reasons behind…
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Boardroom Perspectives
Housing providers’ IT services, and their associated IT teams, are now at the absolute centre of their operations. And at a time when many housing providers are trying to transform their business models and operational processes to become more streamlined, cost effective and better able to cope with things such as universal credit and rent…
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Getting to know you
We’ve written in past Editor’s Notes about the importance of both ‘straight-through processing’ (in short, the automation, from start to finish, of as many standardised repetitive processes, such as a tenant requesting a repair through to the repair being completed without needless manual interventions during the processing of that repair) and gaining ‘a single version…
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What’s that coming over the hill?
Housing providers are going to have a lot on their plates over the next 2-5 years and beyond. Whether you’re worrying about universal credit, rent reductions, pay-to-stay, right-to-buy, mergers and acquisitions, or the wider economy (or all of them), any of these has the potential to be either a disaster waiting to happen or an…
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