External Rating31%
201565 minEnded

Britain's Benefit Tennants

Network:Channel 4

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Aired on Jan 18, 2017, 10:00 PM

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Description

With competition for social housing soaring, this documentary follows two specialist agencies on the front line of Britain's new social housing crisis.

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Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
65 min
Premiered
March 16, 2015
Ended
January 18, 2017
Schedule
Wednesday at 10:00 PM

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Episodes (3 Seasons · 9 Episodes)

Episode 1

In Leeds, letting agent Aimee gets a shock when she investigates reports of a bad smell and high numbers of bluebottles coming from one of her properties.

Oct 27, 2016

65 min

Episode 2

In Manchester, young agent Joe is caught between a mum who's struggling to pay her rent and a landlord who's run out of patience. One of Tracy's tenants has filled a bedroom with tropical birds.

Nov 3, 2016

65 min

Episode 3

As the council housing shortage worsens, Britain's two million private landlords have been buying up houses. Now, more than half of tenants on benefits are renting privately and as austerity cuts and changes to the benefit system bite, lettings agencies specialising in housing benefit are feeling the pressure. In Hull and Grimsby rent collection has become a game of cat and mouse. Letting agents are going to further lengths to track down tenants who have left their landlords out of pocket. In Hull, Jeremy runs Cody's Estates with his wife. They are on the trail of a tenant who has left his flat damaged. There's ÂŁ1000 worth of damages, and to add insult to injury the landlord's curtains are missing. Meanwhile, in Grimsby, letting agent Harp has his faith restored when one of his tenants cleans up the mess at his property as promised, but will he come good on his rent arrears of over ÂŁ3000?

Jan 18, 2017

65 min

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