HOUSTON: Given that affordable housing is a perennial concern for governments, efforts to tighten up the administration of public and community sector housing in areas such as reducing vacancy rates or keeping track of maintenance to keep stock in use, rather than off the market for extensive rebuilds, are a permanent priority.
One approach being tried, although not as extensively as it could be, is using the latest-generation integrated and flexible software platforms to enhance the performance of a string of legacy systems, many of which decline to talk to each other and perform specific tasks in isolation, without much consideration of their relevance to other issues.
One case history of how this can work relates to…