ESRI (UK) helps manage £3.9bn housing programme

27 July 2007, 9:04am

ESRI (UK), the market leader in enterprise geographic information systems (GIS), has developed bespoke software enabling the Housing Corporation, the government’s agency for investing in and regulating housing associations, to compile and analyse data on housing stock levels and record details of rent and lettings across England.

The software will also help the Housing Corporation manage its biggest ever investment programme of £3.9bn which will fund 84,000 new homes.

The corporation uses the new GIS analysis tool, based on ESRI (UK)’s desktop and internet mapping solutions, to extract information from its database and display it in maps. The information covers 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.

ESRI (UK)’s software 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, by Local Authority, as well as average rents by property type and Local Authority.

John Carleton, Housing Corporation field director for the North, said: “The Housing Corporation had been using ESRI solutions for a year before asking them to help us increase the amount and rate of data we compile and analyse.

“The new customised software puts us in a position to save time and concentrate on in-depth analysis, forward-planning and decision-making.”

Michael Knight, ESRI (UK) account manager, said: “The Housing Corporation is demonstrating how GIS can improve efficiencies and resource planning within an organisation by making the most of its data assets.”

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