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Nine billion pounds of taxpayers' money goes to private landlords every year in housing benefit.
And the Institute for Public Policy Research estimates that at least £3bn of that money is spent on poor quality accommodation annually.
That's a lot of public money. And some private landlords are getting rich at our expense while, in some areas, 70% of privately rented homes don't meet the government's decent homes standard.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32381471
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Former cage-fighter Mustafa Kemal Mustafa manages several properties in the South London borough of Lewisham.
One of his properties was closed down last year by the local council in an emergency evacuation. The council said that the house was overcrowded and the electrics had been dangerously hotwired. It was so unsafe that the energy company cut the supply.
The night the council shut it down, there were 23 people living in the house. At one point, there had been 40. I saw one tiny room where four grown adults had been sleeping in bunk beds.
Mr Mustafa was receiving up to £12,000 a month in housing benefit for this one property.
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And that's the way the money goes...