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Social housing tenancy fraud

If you suspect tenancy fraud, you can report it to us.

  • Report social housing fraud

Social housing tenancy fraud is a serious crime that can result in a jail sentence and it denies genuine people in need the opportunity of a home. Fraud can occur in a number of ways, including:

  • subletting by the tenant of a social housing property to someone else who is not the tenant
  • providing false information in a housing application to gain a tenancy
  • unlawfully passing the social housing property to a relative or friends
  • failing to use a property as the principal home, abandoning the property or selling the key to a third party

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