Tenant Management Digitization Solution

Our client Kekinow Native Housing Society is a community housing organization in Metro Vancouver with a distributed operations team and a portfolio of multi-unit rental homes. Their staff manage day to day tenant support, unit upkeep, and housing intake while maintaining clear records for compliance, planning, and service delivery. As demand increased and processes became harder to manage through paper and ad hoc tracking, they needed a modern system that made tenant requests easier to submit, easier to track, and easier to operate internally.

Profile Highlights

  • Organization type: Community housing provider
  • Region: Metro Vancouver
  • Operating model: Small administrative team supporting field staff and tenant-facing workflows
  • Core services supported: Housing intake, tenant requests, unit inspections, maintenance coordination
  • Business priority: Standardized, trackable workflows with reliable history and reporting

Key Challenges

  • Unit inspections lacked consistency: Notes and photos were captured in fragments, re-entered later, and rarely produced a complete unit history
  • Maintenance requests were informal: Requests arrived through paper or side channels, often missing details, leading to duplication, missed items, and inconsistent follow-through
  • Limited status visibility: Staff had no reliable end-to-end view of what was submitted, assigned, in progress, or completed
  • Housing intake was disconnected: Applications and housing-related requests were tracked across separate files, increasing cycle time and reducing auditability
  • Management reporting was weak: Volumes, trends, and turnaround time were hard to measure without structured data

Problem

Core housing workflows were still paper-based and heavily manual. This increased operational risk, slowed response times, and made it difficult to maintain consistent records across tenants and units.

Solution

West X delivered a tenant management digitization solution built on Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform, centered on three purpose-built applications. The design goal was straightforward: reduce paper, standardize what gets captured, make status visible, and create a single operational system staff can run day-to-day.

What We Delivered

  • Unit Condition Inspections
    • Mobile-friendly inspection workflow for field staff
    • Structured capture of room-by-room details with photos attached at the point of entry
    • Complete inspection records that build unit history over time for planning and accountability
  • Repair and Maintenance Requests
    • Simple, form-based intake that captures the right details up front
    • Centralized triage, assignment, and tracking with clear statuses through completion
    • Automated notifications so requests move forward without manual follow-up and updates are easier to communicate
  • Housing Intake and Request Tracking
    • Standardized intake fields and reduced re-entry for staff
    • Organized internal processing view for review, validation, and follow-up
    • Single source of truth for case activity and workload management across programs

Technology Used:

Modern logo design with purple and pink geometric shapes for West X Business Solutions.
Canvas Power Apps
SharePoint business solutions for enterprise collaboration and document management.
SharePoint Lists
Swoosh logo representing West X Business Solutions.
Power Automate
Digital tenant management platform with user-friendly interface for efficient property and lease management.
Microsoft Forms

The Results

Kekinow Native Housing Society moved from paper driven processes to a structured digital system that is easier to operate and easier to govern. Staff gained consistent tools to capture inspections and manage tenant submissions without rework or duplicate entry. Requests became centralized and trackable end to end. Leadership gained clearer operational visibility to support planning and improved service delivery.

Outcomes

  • Reduced administrative overhead from paper handling and re-entry
  • More complete unit history through consistent inspection records
  • Faster, more reliable maintenance request handling with clear status tracking
  • Standardized housing intake and processing with improved auditability
  • Better visibility into volume, trends, and turnaround time for operational decisions

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