Insufficient funding for councils and the government’s failure to properly regulate supported housing mean fraud in the sector is going “largely unaddressed”, MPs have warned.
Unscrupulous landlords are profiting from expensive and poor-quality housing for vulnerable people because fragmented regulations and a lack of official data have allowed them to get away with it, a...
Better scrutiny of housing benefit and enforcement in supported housing appeared to improve the service’s value for money in five pilot schemes, but opportunities for future savings remain...