Solihull Community Housing is now using RentSense to help it mitigate rising arrears and achieve upper-quartile performance. Andy Jones, neighbourhood services manager, Solihull Community Housing, said, “Having spent a lot of time on our housing management system, we still felt that further improvements were needed to improve our arrears performance.” Before buying RentSense, Solihull took…
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Keeping housing IT projects on track
I should like to start off by saying that I don’t think there is anything special about housing IT projects. I don’t believe that IT projects in the housing sector fail any more frequently than they do in any other sector. I would also like to state that I don’t think that IT projects fail…
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Solihull Community Housing upgrades its HMS to Capita OPEN
Solihull Community Housing has upgraded its Capita housing management solution to the software provider’s integrated OPEN suite. Having previously been using Capita’s housing management software as well as OPENContractor, SCH identified a range of efficiency and service improvement opportunities that it could achieve by joining all services up via a single IT platform. As a…
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From Iron Man to social housing – The how, why and reality of IoT
Chris Deery, head of housing IT at Solihull Community Housing, and Stewart Davison, head of business development for Capita’s software services, consider how the internet of things will change social housing over the next few years. The why – Looking at IoT’s benefits and its business case When I think about smart homes, the first…
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Are you planning for Pay-to-Stay?
The government has recently announced a number of delays to high-profile projects such as Hinkley Point C, the roll-out of universal credit and the model for the future funding of supported housing. In this context, many people in the housing sector are wondering when the planned pay-to-stay initiative will be implemented. At the time of…
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Etive Technologies secures three housing contracts
Solihull Community Homes, Gloucester City Homes and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets have all signed up to Etive Technologies’ Digital Log Book service, so that their combined 40,000 tenants can manage their tenancies and digital identities better. This will also enable each housing provider and the council to tailor their services more effectively to…
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