Exclusive: Housing associations flog away dozens of properties in auctions

Findings shared with The Lead show as many as 194 housing association properties being put up by auction houses in a single month. The real figures could be much higher.

With the housing crisis deepening every month, housing associations are finding themselves under the spotlight over a series of management failures and decisions that appear to go against their values as providers of secure housing for the poorest families. Now, figures shared exclusively with The Lead offer a glimpse of another questionable practice: h…