Highly organised gangs of rogue landlords are making
millions every year out of the housing benefit system by enticing desperate
local authorities to place single homeless people in micro-flats in shoddily
converted and dangerous former family homes. Three-bed houses, where the
maximum weekly housing benefit for flat-sharers is under £100 a person, are
being converted into as many as six tiny self-contained studios – as little as
10 sq m in size. Each then qualifies for housing benefit of £181 a week,
enabling a landlord to squeeze £56,000 a year in rent from a property on
London’s fringes, all paid from public funds. The £56,000 compares with the
typical £6,200 annual rent on a three-bed council house. Read more on the
Guardian website.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jan/13/landlords-housing-benefit
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