Social housing tenancy fraud is a serious crime that can result in a jail sentence and it denies genuine people in need the opportunity of a home. Fraud can occur in a number of ways, including:
- subletting by the tenant of a social housing property to someone else who is not the tenant
- providing false information in a housing application to gain a tenancy
- unlawfully passing the social housing property to a relative or friends
- failing to use a property as the principal home, abandoning the property or selling the key to a third party