The term submletting is not to be confused with taking in lodgers which is fine with your landlords permission
The shadow housing minister has said Labour will back a private members bill to make subletting social housing illegal to stop organised gangs that are forcing tenants out of their homes. Jack Dromey said the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud bill put forward by Conservative MP Richard Harrington is ‘necessary’ and ‘builds on what Labour did in government’.‘With ever lengthening waiting lists, it is wrong to deny those in need,’ he said.
‘It is wrong to sub-let unlawfully – where a tenant becomes a landlord – and it is particularly wrong in London, where there is evidence of organised gangs preying on estates, encouraging tenants to move out and then letting out the homes, frequently changing the nature of those estates and streets as a consequence, to the disadvantage of the vast majority of the social tenants still living there.’