Navigating the Maze – Collecting the Rent
Most landlords are going to have around a 50% increase on rent they need to collect in the way of direct payments, and managing these cases will be cost...
Are Social Landlords doing enough to mitigate Universal Credit?
Social landlords have never needed to create efficiencies and protect revenues as they do now. The 1% rent cut, ongoing welfare and tenancy reform has...
Why DeepMind’s Victory is Good News for Housing
This month Google’s Deepmind Artificial Intelligence (AI) application has beaten one of the world’s leading Go players, Lee Se-dol of South Korea, not...
Technology is changing the world…and housing?
Technology and the internet are changing how people all over the world live their lives and one device in particular, supported by the web, the mobile...
2015: A year to forget for Social Housing?
Social Landlords will no doubt remember 2015 as their own annus horribilis. Admittedly the first half of the year was quite uneventful for what was about...
Buy vs Build Software?
Many organisations, not just housing associations, which look to invest in software often consider the pros and cons of buy versus build. Most size-able...
Autumn Statement Review
The housing sector was waiting for the apocalypse when the Autumn Statement was announced in the House of Commons by George Osborne. The FT had lead the...
How can social landlords protect their income?
Social landlords’ income is beginning to resemble the East Yorkshire Coast as it gets constantly eroded, not by the North Sea however, but by on-going...
Is the Benefit Cap a bigger risk to Social Housing Providers than Universal Credit?
Universal Credit has become the main topic of conversation for social housing providers, as there is concern across the sector how it may affect their...
Why Welfare Reform means Operational Reform
Right to buy, rent reduction, benefit caps and universal credit are some of the welfare reforms that are having a huge impact on social housing. And the...
