{"id":581817,"date":"2026-05-13T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581817\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:16:08","slug":"ai-plan-to-cut-rent-arrears-across-18000-stoke-on-trent-council-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581817\/","title":{"rendered":"AI plan to cut rent arrears across 18,000 Stoke-on-Trent council homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council has announced plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help its 18,000 tenants from falling into rent arrears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The system, which Stoke-on-Trent City Council hopes to procure, would be used to spot who among tenants are facing financial hardship so they can benefit from earlier intervention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The proposed AI programme will cost the authority \u00a3210,000 a year, but is expected to create around \u00a3430,000 in savings, through increased revenue collection, reduced recharges to the general fund and a drop in bad debt provision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cabinet members will be asked to back the plan on 19 May, and comes after a report said the current housing management system was &#8220;no longer fit for purpose&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council has announced plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help its 18,000 tenants from falling into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-581817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}