After almost 20 years and 112 editions of this magazine, Housing Technology is finally running a geospatial technology-themed event with our launch of Spatial Matters 2026 in November. Given the fundamental importance of ‘place’ to every housing provider’s operations, assets and tenants, Housing Technology has long been bemused by the low adoption of geospatial systems…
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Editor’s Notes: Housing Technology 2026 in review
The next 18 years start here… Something shifted at our recent Housing Technology 2026 conference. And before I get into what that means for the next chapter of Housing Technology, I want to thank our team behind the scenes who made it happen as well as our partners, speakers, moderators and guests. “A truly excellent…
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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 quality and data literacy…
Amid housing providers’ plans to implement AI, undertake digital transformations, improve their TSMs or comply with Awaab’s Law (to cite just a few examples), high quality data is the vital fuel that enables those things to happen successfully. We’re therefore delighted to have published our new Data Quality in Social Housing 2025 report (no charge…
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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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Editor’s Notes: Data, standards & straight-through processing
The common thread through almost every story in Housing Technology and every housing provider’s technology and business goals (or problems) is that of disconnected, inconsistent, disparate or just plain bad (pick your adjective) data. Shared data standards (c.f. our recent ‘Data Standards in Social Housing 2025’ report, available now from housing-technology.com/research) are now a viable…
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