I guess this, as they say, is why we can't have nice things.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40471554Presumably, anybody living in a sub-let council flat would be doing so "off the grid", which'd mean it's going to either be up to survivors to admit they were staying there or it's going to be up to their "landlords" to admit they'd sub-let their flat.
So, you've got an unknown number of people claiming a council flat, pissing off to live elsewhere and then renting it out to people who, for a variety of reasons, can't get a council flat of their own and forcing them to live in whatever conditions the official tenant sees fit.
Meanwhile, the authorities do apparently fuck-all to find out what's really going on inside the building and if they
did, you'd just get a bunch of people whining about how unfair it was.
Every day that this goes on for, it just reveals more and more about the shitty, grasping, halfassed nature of the society we live in.