{"id":83689,"date":"2026-01-18T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83689"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:17:23","slug":"mass-scale-fraud-feared-in-council-lettings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/18\/mass-scale-fraud-feared-in-council-lettings\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mass\u2011scale fraud&#8217; feared in council lettings"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/5121\/live\/d3a10f00-f2dc-11f0-b5f7-49f0357294ff.jpg\" alt=\"Bright magenta hoarding along a pavement displays Barking and Dagenham branding, including Be First and B&amp;D Reside logos with simple house icons. \" width=\"589\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A police investigation into housing fraud in Barking and Dagenham could reveal links to organised crime gangs, a councillor has said.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cddg3830nr3o\"> Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A police investigation into housing fraud in Barking and Dagenham could reveal links to organised crime gangs, a councillor has said.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Barking-Station.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83690,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83689\/revisions\/83690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}