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  • 2018-09-10T08:15:00Z on BBC One
  • 45m
  • 7h 30m (10 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
Presenter Michelle Ackerley follows investigators as they crack down on rogue social housing tenants, seize their homes and give them to families in genuine need.

10 episodes

Season Premiere

2018-09-10T08:15:00Z

4x01 Episode 1

Season Premiere

4x01 Episode 1

  • 2018-09-10T08:15:00Z45m

Michelle Ackerley hears how a church pastor broke the law by subletting his social-housing property and making thousands of pounds in unlawful profits.

2018-09-11T08:15:00Z

4x02 Episode 2

4x02 Episode 2

  • 2018-09-11T08:15:00Z45m

Michelle Ackerley meets investigators with shocking video evidence that a social-housing flat was being used to run an illegal trade in wild birds.

2018-09-12T08:15:00Z

4x03 Episode 3

4x03 Episode 3

  • 2018-09-12T08:15:00Z45m

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.

2018-09-13T08:15:00Z

4x04 Episode 4

4x04 Episode 4

  • 2018-09-13T08:15:00Z45m

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.

2018-09-14T08:15:00Z

4x05 Episode 5

4x05 Episode 5

  • 2018-09-14T08:15:00Z45m

Michelle Ackerley reveals how a social-housing tenant pretended to have cancer in a sickening attempt to get a new council home.

2018-09-17T08:15:00Z

4x06 Episode 6

4x06 Episode 6

  • 2018-09-17T08:15:00Z45m

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.

2018-09-18T08:15:00Z

4x07 Episode 7

4x07 Episode 7

  • 2018-09-18T08:15:00Z45m

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.

2018-09-19T08:15:00Z

4x08 Episode 8

4x08 Episode 8

  • 2018-09-19T08:15:00Z45m

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.

2018-09-20T08:15:00Z

4x09 Episode 9

4x09 Episode 9

  • 2018-09-20T08:15:00Z45m

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.

2018-09-21T08:15:00Z

4x10 Episode 10

4x10 Episode 10

  • 2018-09-21T08:15:00Z45m

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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