An app that allows residents to ‘chat’ with smart street furniture is among the 20 innovations to secure a slot on the second Social Housing Emerging Disruptors (SHED) framework.
The framework, worth up to £100m over three years, helps social landlords to compliantly procure non-traditional, innovative solutions from micro-businesses and SMEs. Launched by Procurement for Housing (PfH), this second framework was developed with the Proptech Innovation Network. The first SHED framework launched in January 2022.
Many of the chosen suppliers provide services that empower and engage tenants, in line with new tenant satisfaction standards that come into effect from April.
They include Hello Lamp Post, an interactive text messaging service that gathers views on the local environment by asking residents to chat with street furniture. Another is Alertacall, a contact system that creates digital communities in sheltered and supported housing, so tenants feel safe and connected.
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