In this episode of the Social Housing Podcast, we're delighted to welcome Dave Loudon, leading sector consultant and owner of Digital Bark! Our host Peter Hudson dives into the challenges faced by the sector today and why we need to prioritise digital transformation ..read more

In this episode of the Social Housing Podcast, we're delighted to welcome Jonathan Cocker, Chief Information Officer at Platform Housing! Our host Lewis Murray dives into the challenges faced by IT with Jon, as well as the importance of data and whether we're utilising it effectively. Make sure to subscribe and drop a comment with your thoughts ..read more

In this episode of the Social Housing Podcast, we're delighted to welcome Ian Wright, the CEO of the Disruptive Innovators Network! Our host Peter Hudson explores the importance of communicating effectively with your tenants with Ian, as well as some interesting anecdotes during his time at DIN! Make sure to subscribe and drop a comment with your thoughts ..read more

In this episode of the Social Housing Podcast, we're delighted to welcome Tom Robins, the CEO at Switchee! Our host John Doyle dives into the importance of customer centricity with Tom, as well as all the fantastic work Switchee are doing with the ongoing issue of damp and mould. Make sure to subscribe and drop a comment with your thoughts ..read more

In this episode of The Social Housing Podcast, Claire Heyes (ex-CEO of Corgi) discusses the issue of no access across the sector. --- Claire believes the six key factors contributing to no access are: --- ? Human --- ? Economic --- ? Logistical --- ? Technical --- ? Political --- ? Legal --- And during this conversation with our CEO, John Doyle, she talks about each of these factors and how as a sector we can start to improve no access rates ..read more

In this episode, John Doyle (CEO of Voicescape) sits down with Jeremy Squire to discuss how they're helping social landlords solve the scheduling problem for their operatives. --- During the conversation they discussed: --- ✅ The challenges FLS are helping social landlords solve. --- ✅ Their proposition for social landlords. --- ✅ The compliance challenges across the sector ..read more

For many Landlords, the pandemic has shifted the way in which they engage with their residents. With the courts closed and job loss at an all time high... The "enforcement" approach became quickly redundant, post March 2020. Residents were struggling more than they EVER had before. And Landlords like Bournville Village Trust realised the "collecting with care" approach was exactly what residents required. A *care approach* that focused on: ✅ Supporting residents to help pay the rent. NOT... ❌ Enforcing them to pay the rent. --- In this episode of 'The Social Housing Podcast' Stephen Lawrence s ..read more

Do we have a “Pandemic of Disrepair?” ? Over the last few months, there have been an increasing number of TV programs criticising the sector on the state of repairs and prevalence of disrepair claims. But what is the ???? picture? i.e. not the “mass-media” picture but the picture from those who’re actually on the ground dealing with the reality of the situation. Well, for this week's episode of The Social Housing Podcast - we’ve brought on someone who knows that ‘reality’ better than anyone else. Russell Thompson FCIOB, Managing Director of Places Management at Places for People. During the co ..read more

Like every Housing Association over the last 18 months... Platform have been faced with some monumental challenges. ❌ Backlogs of repairs. ❌ Backlogs of voids. During this podcast conversation, Lewis Murray is joined by Marc Mayall (Operations Director at Platform Property Care) to discuss Platform's road to recovery post-pandemic. Discussing areas and topics like: ✅ How Platform are tackling their backlog of repairs/voids. ✅ How Platform developing their apprenticeship program and why Marc believes that will be one of the key's to that road to recovery. ✅ How Platform are gearing themselves u ..read more

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