The Empty Housing Scandal

Matt Allwright is in Liverpool investigating the case of a tenant trapped in a collapsing property. He also meets a Birmingham resident who has had enough of the abandoned house next door.

Matt meets a Merseyside tenant living in a rented property riddled with damp, and he visits a property in Sussex where workers are being housed illegally in dangerous conditions.

Matt visits a property so dangerous it has to be immediately shut down, and he unlocks the mystery of an empty home that has blighted one Scottish community for over a decade.

Matt Allwright investigates the scandal of a rented terrace house that is overcrowded and riddled with cockroaches. In Ayrshire in Scotland, the council are working hard to crack down on long-term empty homes, and Matt meets a Midlands family fighting vermin in their rented property.

Matt Allwright investigates the scandal of a north London bedsit that is simply not fit for purpose. Next, in Liverpool, the council housing team are on the case of a family who have left a rented property in an appalling state, and the landlord in shock. Finally, Matt joins the Birmingham empty homes officer who is fighting back against the city's 10,000 empty properties.