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Panorama: The Great Housing Benefit Scandal

Pixie5740
Pixie5740 Posts: 14,515 Forumite
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in House buying, renting & selling
Is anyone else watching this on BBC 1?

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  • leveller2911
    leveller2911 Posts: 8,061 Forumite
    Pretty shocking stuff..................... Shameful way people are expected to live whilst landlords rake in housing benefit.

    One caravan site there was 300 caravans all paying between £600-900 a month in rent.........
  • Pixie5740
    Pixie5740 Posts: 14,515 Forumite
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    edited 20 April 2015 at 10:06PM
    Mr Mustafa housed 40 people in a HMO that was only licenced for a maximum of 12. :eek:

    Raking in £12k a month in HB for just that 1 property. Shameful.
  • leveller2911
    leveller2911 Posts: 8,061 Forumite
    Pixie5740 wrote: »
    Mr Mustafa housed 40 people in a HMO that was only licenced for a maximum of 23! :eek:

    Raking in £12k a month in HB for just that 1 property. Shameful.
    And he says he didn't make any money on the property ,spending all of the money on repairs. I'm a carpenter and Joiner and I couldn't see any repairs.

    These chancers are allowed to get away with it by councils and Government policy. If a landlord has a licence to house a maximum of 23 people , all claiming housing benefit didn't anyone enforce the licence. There was a paper trail from the housing Benefit payments for 40 people.
  • Tixy
    Tixy Posts: 31,455 Forumite
    The caravan site has nothing on the hostel which almost had nothing on that private house just featured.

    Poor tenants, you can imagine how people could get suicidal living in places like that.
    A smile enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give
    or "It costs nowt to be nice"
  • leveller2911
    leveller2911 Posts: 8,061 Forumite
    The real crux here is that neither the previous Labour government nor the current Tory coalition have addressed this problem so I would hold you're breath in seeing any real action anytime soon.
  • Carl31
    Carl31 Posts: 2,616 Forumite
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    leveller2911 wrote: »
    The real crux here is that neither the previous Labour government nor the current Tory coalition have addressed this problem so I would hold you're breath in seeing any real action anytime soon.



    Vested interests, I imagine many politicians from all parties hold rental properties or BTL's, they're not going to rule themselves out of the market by imposing regulations
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    Half of MPs own buy to let properties. Anything going to change any time soon? Doubt it.m
  • Pixie5740
    Pixie5740 Posts: 14,515 Forumite
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    It's disgusting that the landlords featured in Panorama get millions every year in tax payers money and let their tenants live in squalor and downright dangerous conditions without any repercussions.
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