54 social housing properties were recovered this year in efforts to stamp out tenancy fraud, according to a report from the Cabinet Office’s National Fraud Initiative (NFI) has revealed.

The NFI report said“It is disappointing that, since our report in June 2014, there has been a decrease of 37%… This decrease, when compared to our previous reporting period of 86 properties, continues to be a trend [235 properties were recovered in 2010/11].”