Sub-letting gets the boot!

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Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) is appealing for help from members of the public to stop housing cheats and help ensure that homes are given to people in genuine housing need, who have waited their turn and therefore rightly deserve them.

The organisation which manages nearly 14,000 council homes across the borough, is taking a firm approach to the country’s growing problem of housing fraud. As part of a national government scheme, run by the Audit Commission, they have been given funding to tackle the issue in Rochdale across all social housing in the borough and the initiative is being led by their in-house Legal Services Team.

Housing fraud can take many forms and includes unlawful sub-letting. This practice occurs when Council or housing association homes are sub-let to others without getting the consent of the landlord, and therefore in breach of the terms of the tenancy agreement. Fraud can also occur when people get houses by deception, giving false information. Any such case is unfair, and it is depriving those with greater need of a home.