Tackling Tenancy Fraud

Every year in Northern Ireland, people on the waiting list are denied a home because someone is being dishonest about their housing needs.

Radius is committed to preventing, detecting and tackling tenancy fraud to ensure our properties are legally occupied by people entitled to live in them.

There are different types of tenancy fraud. 

The most common are:

• Obtaining housing by deception 
  When a person obtains housing by making a false declaration regarding information pertinent to their application or by not declaring that they own or rent another property.

• Unlawfully subletting 
  Where a tenant rents their home to another person without the knowledge or permission of their landlord. 

• Unauthorised succession 
  Either wrongly claiming succession rights or continuing to live in a property after the tenant has died without the right to do so. 

• Non residence 
  Where a tenant leaves their home empty without informing the landlord.