Housing Technology interviewed Wythenshawe Community Housing Group’s assistant director of finance, Julie Booker, on their decision to adopt Orchard OpenAccounts following a merger of two housing providers. Wythenshawe Community Housing Group was formed by the merger of Parkway Green Housing Trust and Willow Park Housing Trust in 2013. This group structure has a combined stock…
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Manifest’s Universal Adapter supports Castles & Coasts’ data migration
During the merger in July 2017 of Two Castles Housing and Derwent & Solway Housing, the newly-formed Castles and Coasts Housing Association used Manifest Software’s Universal Adaptor during the migration and merging of data between the two organisations’ housing management systems. Castles and Coasts reported that by using the Universal Adaptor, it was possible to…
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New systems, please!
Reading the last issue of Housing Technology, a few items caught my attention: Orbit with its timeline; Futures Housing with its tenant engagement apps; along with the articles with ‘digital’ in the headline. Those articles made me think of what ‘wonder pills’ the IT industry has prescribed, and what ‘lotions & potions’ the software providers…
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Just Housing nudges Taff Housing’s arrears
Taff Housing has been trialling the use of behavioural insights, commonly known as ‘nudge’, in order to improve the performance of its rent collections and reduce arrears, following consultancy advice from Just Housing Group. Behavioural insights, frequently used by the public sector, HMRC, DVLA and energy suppliers, are intended to take advantage of how people…
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Ashford’s mobile working with Housing Support Pro’s Client 360
Ashford Borough Council has completed the installation of Housing Support Pro’s Client 360 mobile working software, integrated with its existing Orchard housing management system. Delivering all information in real-time, Client 360 includes search facilities, customisable watch lists, calendar and reminder alerts, and pre-designed templates for new tenant sign-up and arrears management. Void, tenant and property…
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Jumping the fence – From gamekeeper to poacher
Housing Technology interviewed Keith Saunders, MIS-AMS’ new leader of customer support after, as gamekeeper turned poacher, he joined the software supplier in April 2017 after 30 years of working in-house at different housing providers. Have you always been interested in IT? Like a lot of people, I fell into IT almost by accident. Until April…
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