Where does the housing benefit go in Benefits Street?

[Pete]

Millionaire Tory cashes in on TV Benefits Street - renting out damp and mouldy dump for £215 a WEEK

"Margaret Thatcher's pal Nischal is known as Goldfinger and rakes in thousands from families living on the breadline renting out damp homes with faulty heating

The squalid rented four-bedroom home on TV’s controversial ­Benefits Street is so riddled with damp that water runs down the walls.
There is no heating because the boiler has long been broken – and the tenant’s children are so frozen at night they sleep with their clothes on.

The Indian-born Conservative is believed to pocket nearly £3,000 a month from struggling residents in Britain’s street of shame – most of it in taxpayer-funded benefits."

This is shocking - have a read of this disgraceful situation - http://bit.ly/1chIAWW

[Alsatian]

Bar steward!

[Old Cruser]

I thought landlords had to conform to rules regulations on maintaining property these days?

[Stuart]

I thought landlords had to conform to rules regulations on maintaining property these days?

And folk have to have a licence and insurance before they can drive... my daughter is about to move back into my house out of her damp, mouldy, shitty cold flat that can only be heated by electric that comes through a meter turned up to  its full "screw the tenant for the landlord's benefit" setting. So long as they keep an eye on the gas service (since all the fuss about tenants dying of carbon monoxide poisoning in the 1980s,) they can more or less get away with owt, it seems to me.

[Old Cruser]

Stuart is that the 'only' legal requirements of the Landlords then or does your daughter ( like the Benefits Streets ) have a landlord who knows how to get away with it or just drags their heels.

That is a terrible situation for you all and how disappointing for your daughter to have to move back home after venturing out to independance