50,000 Social Homes Being Sublet In London Costing Taxpayers £1bn A Year

Evening Standard 2025-03-15

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Around 50,000 London social rent houses are being illegally sublet on platforms such as Airbnb costing taxpayers around £1bn a year, new research has found.The report, by the Tenancy Fraud Forum, warned that councils and housing associations in the capital are failing to crackdown on social housing fraud.

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