{"id":554167,"date":"2025-11-07T02:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554167\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T02:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:15:13","slug":"serious-housing-fraud-uncovered-at-london-council-as-dozens-of-homes-given-to-people-who-werent-eligible-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554167\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Serious housing fraud&#8217; uncovered at London council as dozens of homes &#8216;given to people who weren&#8217;t eligible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Newham Council housing officer allegedly manipulated allocation systems to give 35 homes to ineligible people; the fraud was exposed by a whistleblower, and the officer resigned immediately when confronted.   <\/p>\n<p>The council says it is working with the police to pursue a criminal investigation and recover the 35 misallocated social homes<\/p>\n<p>The fraud emerges amid Newham\u2019s severe temporary housing shortage \u2014 the borough has over 7,500 households in temporary accommodation, costing \u00a3100 million annually \u2014 prompting new policies allowing placement of families outside Newham or even London. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Newham Council housing officer allegedly manipulated allocation systems to give 35 homes to ineligible people; the fraud&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,1268,177216,257,135,177112,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-554167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-homes","12":"tag-housing-fraud","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-metropolitan-police","15":"tag-newham-council","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115506008771345730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}