Agentic AI is coming to the housing sector. Trevor Hampton, director of housing solutions at NEC Software Solutions, explores the challenges and opportunities for housing providers to get the maximum value from this emerging technology. The publication of Alan Turing’s groundbreaking ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ paper in 1950 was arguably the moment when the question…
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First apprentices join Platform Housing’s Digital Futures Academy
Designed to nurture digital and data technology talent from all walks of life, Platform Housing’s Digital Futures Academy has welcomed its first six apprentices. The housing provider opened applications for its academy in February 2025. It received 150 applications from prospective apprentices, with 35 chosen to attend assessment days, and six offered apprenticeships. The apprentices…
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Going beyond performative metrics
In social housing, the stakes are high – residents want safe, healthy homes while housing providers must deal with growing compliance demands, ageing stock and operational backlogs, all while navigating digital transformation. At a recent user forum hosted by MRI Software, housing specialists came together to explore how the smarter use of KPIs, technology and…
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Housing providers moving to Aareon HomeMaster
Following Aareon’s acquisition of HomeMaster earlier this year, the software provider has signed eight more housing providers as customers for the HomeMaster cloud-based housing and finance management system. The latest organisations to join the Aareon HomeMaster community since September include Abertay Housing, Albyn Housing, Mencap, MHA, Paisley Housing, Rosehill Housing, Shettleston Housing and Waverley Housing….
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Five digital housing tips for 2026
During 2025, Civica worked on a bunch of transformation projects with housing providers across the UK. We faced some common challenges across those projects, such as how can we integrate crossover services, how can we get the best from the data we have available or how can we reduce our compliance burden? This usually involved…
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Rethinking technology leadership in housing It happens in board meetings every week. Someone asks a reasonable question: could we survive a ransomware attack? What happens if our housing management system goes down for three days? Who has access to our residents’ data, what is the quality of that data, and what impact is poor data…
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