The recent Budget announcements by the government around cutting social housing rents by per one per cent per year is likely to not only limit housing providers’ ability to build new homes but also affect the stability of their income streams and therefore their credit ratings with potential or existing lenders. As many housing providers…
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Editor's Notes
General Election – Universal credit rolls on
The Conservative’s victory in the General Election and in particular the retention of Iain Duncan Smith as Work and Pensions Secretary should interpreted by housing providers as a clear indication that the widespread roll-out of universal credit is definitely going to happen, despite some misgivings over its technical implementation and its effect on housing providers’…
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Getting the message yet?
At the recent Housing Technology 2015 conference, a common theme throughout almost every single presentation and indeed the IT leaders’ panel discussion was the difficulty of either integrating different applications (even those from the same supplier) and/or transferring data easily between them. Regardless of whether people were talking about messaging, APIs, integration, data transfer, data…
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Editors notes: Mobile trends for 2015
Housing Technology recently received some interesting insights from Trimble Field Service Management around the main trends for mobile working in 2015. These include: Robust and flexible platforms: housing providers are looking to mobile solution providers to deliver platforms across the organisation as the foundation for innovation. IT suppliers therefore have to be ready to add,…
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Editor’s notes: Speak after the tone…
Almost exactly a year after we first raised the subject of technology standards, the Housing Technology Standards (HTS) are beginning to take shape, with the publication (see opposite page) of the draft aims of HTS v1.0… still a long way to go, though. This is an ambitious but very worthwhile project. If successful, it will…
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Editor’s notes: Housing Technology Standards Board – launch event
We have had a fantastic response to our launch of the Housing Technology Standards Board (HTSB) in the last issue, with over 50 housing organisations expressing their interest in helping to create some independent, industry-wide technology standards. We are therefore delighted to announce that the first HTSB meeting will be on 8 April at Circle…
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