and claims the charity has been failing some tenants. it doesn t feel like home, it feels like a prison. it was destroyed, absolutely destroyed. i ve never seen anything like it. we ask, is public money being exploited for private gain? it s a really wild west system i and the winners are the people creaming off quite often very large profits. - boats like this don t come cheap. most people would never have the opportunity to own a boat like this. it would cost you more than a couple of hundred grand, and you can see why. one just like this was bought by a property developer called paul o rourke. here he is explaining his business model. we are a private limited company that buys properties for one price, develops them, and sells them for another and that s what we do as a business. there is a bit more to it than that. and it s all about the housing benefit that can be claimed to house vulnerable people who need support. the government calls it exempt accommodation. exempt ac
and that s what we do as a business. there is a bit more to it than that. and it s all about the housing benefit that can be claimed to house vulnerable people who need support. the government calls it exempt accommodation. exempt accommodation is a particular type of supported housing which is exempt from having benefit regulations, which means you can charge a higher rent. while there are good providers of this type of housing, there is mounting evidence this taxpayer funded system is open to exploitation. it s a really wild west system and the winners are the people creaming off quite often very large profits. you and i are paying for this situation every day that we pay tax. paul o rourke works closely with a charity called my space housing solutions. it is a registered provider of social housing. this is the village of north wingfield in derbyshire. in 2018, paul o rourke bought arcam house here. my space took a 20 year lease on the property and used it to house and supp
they never felt like a charity. it was felt like a business. the tenants had dozens of convictions between them and some had had addiction problems. my space says all tenants should get at least three hours of support a week. my time was that thinly stretched that, was i able to offer them the support they needed? quite clearly, i wasn t, because it descended into absolute chaos. mark was worried about the impact on the village and the many elderly people who lived there. did you raise this with senior management? yes, i raised time and time again that the process was flawed and that we couldn t be putting drug addicts and alcoholics into arcam house. my space denies it was under pressure to fill arcam house. it says people are at the centre of everything it
does and it is distressing that it failed some of its tenants and staff. arcam house was forced to close for three months after the machete incident. only then was charlie able to see inside. it was destroyed, absolutely destroyed. i d never seen anything like it. furniture was smashed, doors hanging off the hinges in pieces, broken glass everywhere, human substances on the walls. evidence of drug use. my space says there were instances a few years ago where service levels fell below the standards it sets. it says lessons were learnt and procedures were improved. when property developer paul o rourke bought arcam house, along with several other properties, he paid around £2.25 million and paired
it is a registered provider of social housing. this is the village of north wingfield in derbyshire. in 2018, paul o rourke bought arcam house here. my space took a 20 year lease on the property and used it to house and support vulnerable people. it s a really community based village. is that it there? yeah. charlie hamilton kay works with people affected by anti social behaviour. by the middle of 2019, just weeks after tenants moved into arcam house, she was already dealing with problems. the behaviour was constant. drunkenness, loud music, suspected drug use. early hours of the morning, late hours of night, constant reports of calls to the police. it was really terrifying.