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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Simon Murphy and May Bulman

More than £130m in public money handed to housing providers named and shamed by regulator

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More than £132m in taxpayers’ money for housing the country’s most vulnerable people has been handed to providers that have been named and shamed by the regulator, it can be revealed.

An investigation by The Independent and openDemocracy has found that huge sums in housing benefit for “exempt accommodation” have been given to organisations since 2018 despite judgments or notices from the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH).

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