Councils use Rogue Landlord Database cash to fund deportation raids

In September the Radical Housing Network revealed that government money originally earmarked for protecting vulnerable tenants from unscrupulous landlords is  being used to fund deportation raids.

The following pieces appeared in RT and VICE.

Money for rogue landlord crackdown being used to arrest tenants instead

Millions of pounds’ worth of government funds earmarked to combat rogue landlords is being used to arrest tenants instead, a series of Freedom of Information (FoI) requests have revealed.

RT International

UK Government Money to Tackle Rogue Landlords Is Being Used to Arrest Tenants

In trying to clamp down on "beds in sheds", the UK government just made things harder for the people living in them.

VICE

This is how the Daily Mail spin it:

31 migrants in the house and rogue landlords raking in £100k a year

A Romanian family including a girl of just two years old were discovered living in a three-bed property in London's East End. SUE REID investigates the squalid conditions of migrants.

Mail Online

Below is how Capita are profiting —  by selling councils the Rogue Landlord Database for them to populate:

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