up my space with a property investor. my space signed leases with the investor and paul o'rourke sold the properties for 3.9 million, 1.5 million more than he paid, a tidy sum. what made the properties so much more valuable to the investor were long leases with rent paid for by the taxpayer through housing benefit. you've got people who are actively targeting people with support needs so that they can make money out of the situation, and that should not be allowed. paul o'rourke helped set up my space in 2012, and since then the charity has received around £100 million of public money. paul o'rourke says he's not been involved in the running of the charity since 2016. since then he's concentrated on his property business, enabling homes.