Council House Crackdown - Season 4
Season 4
Episodes
Episode 1
Michelle Ackerley hears how a church pastor broke the law by subletting his social-housing property and making thousands of pounds in unlawful profits.
Episode 2
Michelle Ackerley meets investigators with shocking video evidence that a social-housing flat was being used to run an illegal trade in wild birds.
Episode 3
Michelle Ackerley hears how a project manager working for a high street bank attempted to deceive the authorities in order to buy her parents' council house under the Right to Buy scheme.
Episode 4
Michelle Ackerley hears how a woman tricked her way to getting a social-housing flat, then raked in thousands of pounds by unlawfully subletting it. In fact she was a property owner and had even paid off her mortgage.
Episode 5
Michelle Ackerley reveals how a social-housing tenant pretended to have cancer in a sickening attempt to get a new council home.
Episode 6
Michelle reveals how a tenant who was supposed to be living in a council flat in Solihull, near Birmingham, had booked a one-way ticket to America to start a new life thousands of miles away in Connecticut.
Episode 7
Michelle unravels a sophisticated fraud in which an illegal immigrant used two false passports and two different identities in order to get two social-housing flats.
Episode 8
Michelle reveals how a woman pretended to be caring for her elderly grandfather in a callous attempt to get a highly sought-after social-housing flat. In reality, he had already died when she signed the tenancy agreement.
Episode 9
Michelle meets an innocent young family tricked by a tenancy cheat who had unlawfully sublet his council flat while living and working in Beverly Hills, USA, and Cancun, Mexico.
Episode 10
Michelle reveals how a man pretended to be someone else for more than two decades so that he could hold on to a social-housing flat.
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