It’s easy to think of Housing Associations in terms of the
big boys with high stock levels and major infrastructure projects supplied by
the big system integrators. Of course it’s a fragmented “industry” with many
small HAs. They face the same compliance and regulatory needs as the large
players and need to get appropriate bang for their buck too. Getting efficient
can sound a little trite. But it belies the fact that massive changes like
welfare benefit reform and a dour economic backdrop mean that cost savings
simply have to be top of decision makers’ minds.
This month’s Housing Technology includes
an article about Shian Housing‘s adoption of Invu. There are approximately 320
small associations, with fewer than 1000 units, registered with the National
Housing Federation and working in London. These form the G20 group, one of
which is Shian.
Invu solutions have been implemented in many HAs and the
trend is positive. Many of these have been in good sized and growing HAs, like
Seren, Cosmopolitan, Adactus and Derwent. The solutions have been complex at
times and the results hugely positive. We’re delighted to work on these
projects and we hope that these customers are enjoying the benefits they set
out to achieve - the fact that they are willing to provide great testimonials
and case studies is certainly positive. But the Shians of this world show that
careful husbandry, very well defined scope and a pragmatic sense of ambition
can allow the smaller HAs to share many of these benefits.
Invu is delighted
to work with all sizes of HAs. We’re at the NHF Housing Finance
Conference and Exhibition at Warwick University and TAI 2012: The Housing
Olympics in Cardiff this week. Next week we’ll be at Hitex in Edinburgh.
Come and ask us about Shian and our other customers experiences.
