If you didn’t notice from this edition’s cover, this is the 50th edition of Housing Technology. While we still remain a prime candidate for the BBC’s Have I Got News For You ‘guest publication’ slot, so much has happened in the social housing sector since 2008. In Housing Technology’s infancy, it was apparent to us…
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Editor's Notes
Editor’s Notes: Digital by Default – An initial snapshot
Although we are only halfway through the online survey for Housing Technology’s forthcoming Digital by Default 2016 report (to be published in March in conjunction with Go ON UK), a quick snapshot and analysis of the responses provides some interesting results. In terms of the factors preventing tenants getting online, a lack of knowledge and/or…
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Leading the way with the internet of things
Readers may have noticed that Housing Technology has been covering the growth of the internet of things more frequently over the past few issues. This is because we believe that housing providers, possibly for the first time, are in a unique position to completely change the domestic technology landscape. At the moment the majority of…
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Paying to stay or staying to pay?
The government’s double whammies of universal credit and pay to stay can be thought of as two sides of the same coin in terms of their impacts on housing providers’ operations and financial performance. We recognise that universal credit and pay to stay are obviously distinct areas, but there are similarities in terms of outside…
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A single version of the truth
A common problem for the majority of housing providers is that due to the plethora of business applications that each of them typically has, even a simple query such as ‘how many properties do we own or manage’ may result in different answers depending on which application is being used. The phrase ‘a single version…
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Web 1.0, 2.0 and the Internet of Things
Since Housing Technology began reporting on IT developments in the social housing sector in 2008, it’s been very apparent that housing providers are catching up with or even eclipsing their contemporaries in other parts of the public and private sectors. This is clearly a good thing. However, Housing Technology thinks that the next demarcation will…
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