In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the UK housing sector was thrown a new challenge with the government’s Charter for Social Housing Residents which laid out a bold new standard for housing providers. Combine this with ambitious climate-change targets as well as an irrefutable digital lag, and the housing sector was already on…
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Technology is at the heart of meeting the decarbonisation challenge
By Scott McRae, Engagement Director at Amido. There is a tough road to decarbonisation ahead for the housing sector. The UK carbon neutral homes initiative is asking for a net zero carbon economy by 2050, and the effort required to meet this goal is expected to cost the industry more than £104bn to deliver. Yet,…
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The human value of technology in social housing
By Ian Cowley, Principal Data Engineer at Amido. With vulnerable people accounting for a significant proportion of housing association tenants, the social housing sector has a duty of care that reaches far beyond simply providing shelter. As the burden falls on facilities managers and staff to services thousands of properties and tenants’ needs, there’s a…
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Digitisation – What’s holding you back?
Business and IT strategies within the housing sector tend to be born more from efficiency and growth than from the drive for innovation and investment that we see in other sectors. With a lack of inherent competition, this presents a challenge – a ‘digital lag’ – that leaves the housing sector playing catch-up in meeting…
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