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Software for Social Housing Sector

from "UK Landlord" magazine, September 2007

New software has been developed for the Housing Corporation, the government agency that invests in new affordable homes and regulates over 1,500 housing associations, to compile and analyse data on housing stock levels and record details of rent and lettings across Britain.

The software will help the Housing Corporation manage its biggest-ever investment programme of £3.9bn which will fund 84,000 new homes from 2006-2008. The Housing Corporation uses analysis tools based on geographic information systems (GIS) which extract information from its database on property size and type, number of rooms, benefit claimants and other information affecting tenants or properties that come under the responsibility of social landlords and the governance of the Housing Corporation.

The new customised software, developed by ESRI (UK), enables effective reporting of the annual regulatory and statistical data that registered social landlords are required to submit to the corporation. This data covers how much, what type and where the stock is located as well as average rents by property type and local authority.required to submit to the corporation. This data covers how much, what type and where the stock is located as well as average rents by property type and local authority.

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