Panorama: The Great Housing Rip Off (Mon 25th)

brit1234

The Great Housing Rip Off

With a shortage of social housing, and the private rented market booming, reporter John Sweeney investigates the so-called 'rogue landlords' - the housing barons accused of receiving large amounts of housing benefit while using the small print in their tenancy agreements to exploit the poor and vulnerable.

Councils say they don't have the right laws to combat them, but with the new housing minister ruling out any changes in the law, Panorama examines a problem that is not going to go away.


Monday, 20:30 on BBC One

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vmvcv


Just saw the TV clip for this, looks truly shocking. Buy to let landlords raking it in from the tax payer and housing people in filthy slums. :mad: Looks a must see tomorrow.

brit1234

Previously Scientology V John Sweeny

Now Evil Landlords V John Sweeny



Let battle commence tomorrow :beer:

dopester

That's hilarious brit1234. :rotfl:

If only a Panorama presenter could lose it like that with the Wilsons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okKYSSRQodQ

Brallaqueen

Gosh, Jeremy Vine has a cushy job. Five mins of bookending while someone else goes and does the investigative journalism!

Loughton_Monkey

I will watch it with trepidation. The BBC's track record on this sort of programme is miserable. They should stick to Light Entertainment.

If it's anything like the "Pension Charges" programme, they might well be dealing with a 'real' issue, but they will let themselves down with a very unintelligent analysis, wrong facts, and examples that are really far too obscure and off-topic to make the real point. Typically (for the BBC) they might show a true "tenant from hell" and just give the tenant's own biased half of the story.

brit1234

dopester wrote: »

If only a Panorama presenter could lose it like that with the Wilsons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okKYSSRQodQ

Sweeny does like to chase them down so I reckon there will be some good name, shaming and humilating of a couple of Landlords tonight.;)

brit1234

on in next 3 minutes

olly300

I felt sick looking at that bathroom.

torontoboy45

on now and focussing on on mr. danski(?), slum landlord.

shame (for the minute); I was expecting more.

brit1234

Come on Sweeny eat Danski alive. :mad:

People are crying about Tame Estates

olly300

I'm p*ssed that I'm paying for such sh*tty accommodation. If as a landlord you are going to rip of the taxpayer least make sure the homes are nice.