Recommendation 15

There is no single source of data on Single Living Accommodation, and the Department lacks central data on its location, condition and usage.43 The Department said it recognises that its ability to track who is using what accommodation is poor at the moment, with it only having data from a snapshot survey.44 It told us that it is developing an Single Living Accommodation Management Information System (SLAMIS) to enable people to book accommodation, and to enable it to understand how accommodation is being used, which will also inform investment decisions. We asked the Department what it had learnt from similar commercial booking systems, for example, those used by hotels, but it said it is trying to develop a simple system and would not necessarily need all the functionality that such organisations would use.45