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The Housing Enforcers
The Housing Enforcers Episodes
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 4
Matt Allwright gets a surprise in Stroud when an eviction takes a shocking turn. In Jaywick, things turn violent for housing officers Ian and Rob as they investigate a fly-tippi ...
07-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 3
Matt Allwright catches up with an old friend but discovers that although the state of his property has improved, his behaviour might inadvertently be putting his neighbours in d ...
04-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 2
Matt Allwright helps a housing officer assist a tenant whose hoarding habit is threatening to spiral out of control, causing problems for both himself and his neighbours. An esc ...
03-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 1
Matt Allwright joins housing officer Andrew Weavers in Suffolk and discovers a tenant who, for the past five years, has become a prisoner in his own bedroom. And in Havering, th ...
31-05-2019
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 8
Matt Allwright visits an overcrowded property where lives are at risk, and talks become heated on a street when antisocial behaviour is tackled.
18-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 20
Matt takes a trip to north London to meet a pair of tenants in danger of becoming isolated from their local community. But can a volunteer lunch club help provide a solution? An ...
17-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 19
Matt meets an ageing couple in Wiltshire who are struggling to remain independent in their own home. In Stroud, housing officers help a tenant with a new kitchen, while in Londo ...
16-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 18
Matt is on the beat in Havering with the council's fraud team. In Tendring, housing officers are faced with fly-tipping that is threatening the safety of local residents. Matt m ...
15-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 17
In Croydon, Matt joins housing officer Francis to tackle a derelict house and garden that is threatening to engulf a neighbour's property. In Chichester, two families are hoping ...
14-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 15
Matt Allwright is in Peterborough with housing officers on a visit to a tenant whose recent chip pan fires are causing problems for his neighbours. In Wiltshire, a young mum-to- ...
11-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 14
Matt Allwright joins housing officers in Tendring to investigate a property that might be putting its tenants' lives in danger. In Rotherham, a unique new scheme might present a ...
10-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 13
Matt is in Stroud, where during a routine tenant visit he learns a day in the life of a housing officer can be anything but average. In Suffolk, one man's spot of garden DIY is ...
09-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 12
Matt is in Liverpool, where he discovers a single mum facing eviction from a house that is already unsafe for her and her kids. In Wiltshire, a grandfather's move to a smaller p ...
08-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 11
In Wiltshire, there is a race against time for expectant parents to find a home for their new baby. In Stroud, a mother and daughter's house is facing extensive renovation after ...
07-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 10
Matt Allwright hits the streets in Havering on the trail of suspected tenancy fraud. In Newcastle, housing officer Laura encounters a sticky situation when she investigates an e ...
04-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 9
In Stroud, housing officer Joe faces one of the biggest challenges of his career as he is forced to carry out five evictions in just one day. In Wiltshire, Matt meets a worried ...
03-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 8
Matt Allwright joins housing officers in Peterborough, where an estate inspection reveals how illegal fly-tipping is blighting the lives of residents. The programme meets two fa ...
02-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 7
Matt Allwright journeys to Liverpool to meet a desperate tenant whose family is being threatened with eviction. With the landlord chasing them for unpaid rent, it becomes a race ...
01-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 6
Matt Allwright makes an emotional journey to Suffolk to meet a tenant who is about to be evicted after almost 64 years living in the same house. In Stroud, an apparently empty p ...
30-04-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 5
Matt Allwright takes a break from his usual trek through problem properties to explore the world of social housing on the Scilly Isles. But despite the picturesque surroundings, ...
27-04-2018
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 5
From life-endangering fire traps to health hazards and accidents waiting to happen, Matt Allwright is back on the front line with the nation's housing enforcers to investigate w ...
20-11-2017
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 4
From life-endangering fire traps to health hazards and accidents waiting to happen, Matt Allwright is back on the front line with the nation's housing enforcers to investigate w ...
17-11-2017
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 3
From life-endangering fire traps to health hazards and accidents waiting to happen, Matt Allwright is back on the front line with the nation's housing enforcers to investigate w ...
16-11-2017
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 2
From life-endangering fire traps to health hazards and accidents waiting to happen, Matt Allwright is back on the front line with the nation's housing enforcers to investigate w ...
15-11-2017
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 1
From life-endangering fire traps to health hazards and accidents waiting to happen, Matt Allwright is back on the front line with the nation's housing enforcers to investigate w ...
14-11-2017
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 11
Matt Allwright joins forces with the council and police to investigate a landlord's conversion of unlawful flats, and housing enforcers uncover a hoard of problems when they vis ...
23-06-2017
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 14
Consumer programme presented by Matt Allwright. The council visits a property where they believe nine people have managed to squeeze in, and there is council help for a grandfat ...
22-06-2017
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 15
Matt Allwright investigates a tiny and overcrowded property left without electricity, and the housing enforcers discover a garden outbuilding that almost takes up as much space ...
20-06-2017
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 17
Matt Allwright meets a mother and child living in such cramped conditions her husband has to sleep on the floor, and a visually impaired couple get help to live independently.
13-06-2017
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 16
Matt Allwright discovers what could easily be Britain's filthiest home, and the Housing Enforcers conduct late night raids to derelict homes, tackle vermin infestations and shut ...
12-06-2017
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 10
Things get heated after housing officers discover a flat that requires the tenants to climb onto a chair before they can get to their front door. And the council rehouse a young ...
11-11-2016
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 9
A family living off-grid are helped to stay in their remote home, and Matt Allwright meets the ex-serviceman whose rented house is so damp it has started sprouting mushrooms.
10-11-2016
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 7
Matt Allwright visits a converted house whose landlord isn't playing by the rules, and housing officers smell a rat in a crumbling property.
08-11-2016
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 6
Matt Allwright finds scorched stairs are just the beginning in a council property wrecked by the evicted tenants. Housing officers discover the signs that someone is living in a ...
07-11-2016
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 2
Consumer champion Matt Allwright joins the ranks of Britain's housing officers on the front line in the battle between landlords and tenants. A household water leak means a hou ...
01-11-2016
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 1
Consumer champion Matt Allwright joins the ranks of Britain's housing officers on the front line in the battle between landlords and tenants. Matt visits what could easily be B ...
31-10-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 20
Matt Allwright joins a rescue mission on an abandoned and dangerous property in Essex. Will it ever be restored to the grand seafront family home it once was? And in Salford, Ma ...
19-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 19
When a fight breaks out between a landlord and tenant, housing officer Richard finds himself mediating. Meanwhile in Suffolk, one council tenant's automotive activity is driving ...
18-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 18
There are tough decisions to be made in Kent as Matt Allwright meets a pensioner struggling to look after herself. In Manchester, there is a glimpse of just how hard it can be f ...
17-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 17
Matt is in Newham where he meets two families living a little too close for comfort.
16-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 16
Matt Allwright inspects a flat conversion in Clacton-on-Sea with a serious damp problem, things get heated in Oxford as a tenant struggles to leave his dangerous flat, and in Ke ...
15-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 14
Matt Allwright has teamed up with housing officers in Sandwell as the programme meets a part-time musician on the brink of being evicted. In Oxford, we see first hand the length ...
11-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 13
Consumer programme. Matt Allwright teams up with a housing officer in Sandwell whose neglected property leaves us smelling a rat.
10-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 11
Matt visits a household where the landlady's post-it notes have become a sticking point. In the Lake District, officers inspect the empire of a landlord king.
08-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 11
Matt visits a household where the landlady's post-it notes have become a sticking point. In the Lake District, officers inspect the empire of a landlord king.
08-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 20
The Housing Enforcers team up with the police to raid a property, only to find the tenants escaping over the back fence. Matt Allwright visits a grandad whose rented home is in ...
19-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 18
Matt Allwright turns detective to try to solve the mystery of how many people really live in a house in Oxford. Council officers visit a property where they believe nine people ...
17-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 16
Matt Allwright meets a young mum who was forced to move to a different part of the country, a tenant is left frightened after a fire breaks out in a neighbouring flat, and the H ...
15-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 15
Matt Allwright finds a surprise house inspection causes tempers to flare before the council have to revisit with the police. A couple from Spain learn their new home isn't as sa ...
12-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 14
Matt Allwright visits a house that looks as if the landlord is following council rules - until he gets into the back garden. Housing officers help a family and their dogs get ba ...
11-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 13
Matt Allwright meets a family living in such cramped conditions that the father has to sleep on the floor. A visually impaired couple get help to live independently, and Matt vi ...
10-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 11
Matt Allwright meets a mother whose rented house is in such a bad state she fears for her children's health. A vandalised lift leaves a terminally ill man trapped in his own hom ...
08-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 10
Matt Allwright joins housing officers to investigate unlawful bedsits which hide potentially lethal problems. A family living off-grid are helped to stay in their remote home. A ...
05-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 9
Matt Allwright visits an overcrowded property where lives are at risk, while talks become heated on a street plagued by antisocial behaviour. Council tenants swap properties to ...
04-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 8
Matt Allwright visits a converted house whose landlord is not playing by the rules, while an elderly lady gets the independence she has been hoping for. Housing officers smell a ...
03-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 7
Matt Allwright finds scorched stairs are just the beginning in a council property wrecked by the evicted tenants. Housing officers discover signs that someone is living in a dam ...
02-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 6
Matt Allwright visits a disabled resident who has been eating and sleeping on the floor. The housing enforcers of east London seek out red lights on a residential street. And co ...
01-02-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 10
Matt visits a run-down house in east London where he finds vulnerable tenants living in squalid conditions and a catch-22 situation. On the outskirts of Birmingham, one devoted ...
20-11-2015
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 8
An early morning raid in Newham leads Matt to meet a landlord who seems intent on being king of his castle despite numerous warnings from the council. In Kent, officers meet a m ...
18-11-2015
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 5
There's something in the water for housing officers in the Lake District. In Salford, Matt meets someone battling drug addiction who hopes that a new home will give her the chan ...
13-11-2015
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 4
Consumer champion Matt Allwright join the ranks of Britain's housing officers on the front line in the battle between landlords and tenants. Matt is in the historic city of Oxf ...
12-11-2015
BBC 1