Council House Crackdown

  • Premiered: Jul 2015
  • Episodes: 35
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • BBC One
  • Daily at 9
  • Documentary

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Season 4
4x1
Episode 1
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Air date
Sep 10, 2018
Michelle Ackerley hears how a church pastor broke the law by subletting his social-housing property and making thousands of pounds in unlawful profits.
4x2
Episode 2
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Sep 11, 2018
Michelle Ackerley meets investigators with shocking video evidence that a social-housing flat was being used to run an illegal trade in wild birds.
4x3
Episode 3
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Sep 12, 2018
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.
4x4
Episode 4
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Air date
Sep 13, 2018
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.
4x5
Episode 5
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Sep 14, 2018
Michelle Ackerley reveals how a social-housing tenant pretended to have cancer in a sickening attempt to get a new council home.
4x6
Episode 6
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Sep 17, 2018
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.
4x7
Episode 7
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Sep 18, 2018
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.
4x8
Episode 8
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Air date
Sep 19, 2018
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.
4x9
Episode 9
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Air date
Sep 20, 2018
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.
4x10 Show finale
Episode 10
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 21, 2018
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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