Fuel poverty is a serious challenge in rural England. More than one in eight households in rural villages, hamlets and isolated dwellings are in fuel poverty. The more rural a location gets, the more the fuel poverty gap widens. As rural homes are more likely to be off-gas, more have to rely on expensive electric…
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Housing Management
As safe as houses?
Best practice for tenants’ data Merge in turn Two years ago, the Financial Times reported the merger of three housing providers, L&Q, Hyde Group and East Thames Housing, to form one of the largest housing providers in Europe. The new group employs 4,000 people, already owns 135,000 homes, and plans to build an additional 100,000…
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Capita’s HMS at Derby Homes
Derby Homes has chosen Capita One’s OpenHousing as its new housing management system, including integrated support for mobile working. The housing provider said that OpenHousing was expected to give them “a single version of the truth” via a unified platform integrated across its different service areas. Having recently restructured its general needs housing service, its…
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Australia’s BaptistCare signs up for Civica HMS
Civica has gained its first Australasian customer after BaptistCare (NSW & ACT) signed up for the company’s cloud-based Cx housing management software. Mike Furner, general manager for housing and retirement living, BaptistCare, said, “Our partnership with Civica will allow us to expand our community housing in a sustainable and cost effective manner – reducing overall…
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Plentific deal with EHSL
EHSL Supported Housing is now using Plentific’s online platform for booking and tracking maintenance and repair jobs, with the aim of saving money and reducing administrative overheads. Having been successfully implemented at Notting Hill Genesis, the Plentific platform enables EHSL and its tenants to find, book and pay for trade professionals on a single digital…
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Proptech evolution in housing
‘Proptech’ is transforming business and housing organisations, delivering a greater variety of solutions to problems. An end-to-end tenancy management solution is available once all platforms and parties are pulled into one. Proptech management systems are developing from traditional to newer breeds of platforms and this article looks at how they vary and how certain software…
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