The third annual Housing Technology Awards took place during the Housing Technology 2026 conference in Nottingham earlier this month, with the winners announced during a special ceremony at the East Midlands Conference Centre. With the awards being judged by an external panel of the entrants’ housing peers (and free of any commercial sponsorship for complete…
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Recruitment
One step beyond – Attracting technology talent into housing
The social housing sector is competing for technology and data skills in an increasingly tight market. Cloud engineers, data architects, cyber specialists and transformation leaders are in demand across every sector, yet housing often struggles to attract candidates who haven’t previously worked in the sector. This is rarely about the purpose of housing, and in…
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2026 & beyond…
Housing Technology interviewed experts from Access PaySuite, Mobysoft, NEC Software Solutions, Solvares Field Service, TechLabs London and Voicescape about new technologies for 2026, out-of-sector ideas to consider, proptech vs. enterprise software and how to avoid technological distractions & dead-ends. New technologies to consider Engin Yilmaz, director of product innovation at Mobysoft, said, “Beyond the AI…
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Editor’s Notes – Our not-so-secret superpower
The Housing Technology team often talks to people who’ve just joined the social housing sector, typically from the commercial sector, either with a housing provider or with an IT/business provider focused on social housing. In every instance, the one thing we always emphasise to them is the lack of competition between housing providers and therefore…
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Editor’s Notes – Data matters more than ever…
As everyone in social housing is only too well aware, data is fundamental to every housing provider’s operations. Whether it’s upstream problems with data collection, entry and consistency or downstream issues with data integration, reporting and governance (and everything in between), data is one of the ‘existential pillars’ of housing providers’ operations and must be…
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Attracting and retaining the GenZ workforce
Much has been written and discussed about generational differences and the supposed stereotypical traits aligned with each group. As a GenX person (b. 1965-1980), I would say most of the GenX traits are reasonably accurate, in particular the concept of being motivated by working for a specific brand. I started my career with IBM and…
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