MRI Software has bought Housing Partners to augment its capabilities in the housing sector. Housing Partners’ Housing Jigsaw, Streetwise, TAIM and HomeSwapper products will now be part of MRI’s software portfolio. The acquisition of Housing Partners follows on closely from MRI’s acquisitions of Castleton Technology and Orchard Information Systems earlier this year. Patrick Ghilani, chief…
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Housing Partners empowers Welsh housing providers for UC
Cadwyn, Hafod and Cardiff Community housing associations have signed with Housing Partners in order to protect their combined 9,000 households from the effects of universal credit and welfare reform. Housing Partner’s Insight solution, which collates information from the landlord’s housing management system and combines it with external data gathered from hundreds of third-party sources, is…
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Housing Partners and NPSS tackle homelessness with IT
Housing Partners and the National Practitioner Support Service (NPSS) have jointly developed a new case management system to help housing providers and local authorities meet the requirements for the 2017 Homelessness Reduction Act. With a pilot project starting in September 2017, Housing Jigsaw is an online tool created to gather data on homelessness direct from…
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Boosting tenants’ credit scores with Housing Partners
Housing Partners has extended its support for the Rental Exchange, a partnership between Experian and Big Issue Invest. Inclusion of rental payment data in the Rental Exchange enables tenants with good payment records to build a stronger credit history and helps boost their credit scores in the same way that mortgage-holders currently enjoy. Jonathan Westley,…
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Housing Partners in the cloud with Housing Hub
Housing Partners has launched a new version of its Housing Hub, with greater emphasis on data analytics. The new service comprises a number of cloud-based modules aimed at giving housing providers the tools they need to not only identify and support tenants in greatest need, but also to uncover and analyse correlations across their tenant…
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Academic report cites ongoing risks of UC
A report from Sheffield Hallam University suggests that housing providers could face huge financial problems because their IT systems simply aren’t ready for the introduction of universal credit, with some housing providers unable to access even the most basic data on their tenants. The independent study, carried out by the university on behalf of Housing…
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