39 h. ago 'Cash for council houses scam' busted: Two 'corrupt housing officers' at Labour authority are arrested after 'taking bungs to allocating hundreds of properties'

The corrupt housing officers allegedly demanded cash for properties before wrongly issuing hundreds of social homes in the east London borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Society

3 d. ago ‘Corrupt' housing officers suspected of fraudulently allocating hundreds of east London council homes for cash

Police make arrests amid investigation into four-year east London housing 'scam'

Society

3 d. ago Two arrests after 'several hundred' council homes fraudulently allocated at East London council

Two arrests after 'several hundred' council homes fraudulently allocated at East London council  My London

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4 d. ago 'Corrupt' housing officers suspected of huge east London council homes scam

'Corrupt' housing officers suspected of huge east London council homes scam  London Evening Standard

Society

4 d. ago Revealed: 'Corrupt' housing officers suspected of allocating hundreds of east London council homes for cash

Police make arrests amid investigation into four-year east London housing 'scam'

Society

4 d. ago London council is housing 'homeless' Chagos nationals 150 miles from capital in city where rough sleepers hit record high... and local authorities 'had no idea'

A London council is housing a group of 'homeless' Chagos nationals in a block of luxury accommodation 150 miles away from the English capital, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Events

3 w. ago Council houses worth £550,000 are seized from 'fraudsters' after probe finds they already OWNED their own properties elsewhere

Hackney Council in north London confiscated seven homes, redistributing them to those most in need who had been on the waiting list for social housing for some time.

Society

4 w. ago London council loses legal bid to prevent loss of Section 106 homes due to mortgagee protection clause

London council loses legal bid to prevent loss of Section 106 homes due to mortgagee protection clause  Inside Housing

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