Britain’s Housing Scandal

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Matt Allwright reports on the UK's housing crisis.

Britain is suffering a housing crisis. With 20 per cent of privately rented accommodation unfit to live in and 200,000 homes lying empty, Matt Allwright investigates this growing scandal.

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Britain's Housing Scandal: Series 2: Episode 2

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In Liverpool, Matt Allwright meets a tenant living in a rented property riddled with damp.

Matt Allwright meets a Merseyside tenant living in a rented property riddled with damp, and he visits a property in Sussex where workers are being housed illegally in dangerous conditions.

Presenter Matt Allwright is on Merseyside, where he meets a woman who has lived without hot water for a decade in a rented property riddled with damp and mould. Meanwhile, council teams investigate a seaside property in East Sussex that should be empty but is illegally housing a team of workers in dangerous conditions. In Kent, Matt meets the developer who is transforming a once-derelict Victorian hotel into stunning, high-spec apartments.

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