The Chancellor's announcement in last week's Spending Review of a in England over the next four years - coupled with the trying to secure mortgages - likely means more people relying on private rental accomodation.
Though many landlords provide a for tenants, Panorama has been investigating some who are cashing in on an affordable housing crisis by renting to the poor on housing benefit - but short-changing their tenants.
John Sweeney has been on the trail of some of the so-called - by one estimate as much as £3.5bn is going to neglectful or bad private landlords.
Councils say they are doing all they can within - but the new housing minister has ruled out setting up a landlords' registry to keep track of those who are deemed substandard. Panorama examines a problem that seems not only unlikely to go away, but set to get much worse.
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Trapped alive longer and deeper underground than anybody in history, the 33 Chilean miners somehow survived to be rescued.
For weeks, Panorama followed and engineers at the surface as they worked to free the men. But should they ever have been trapped in the first place? Reporter Dan McDougall reveals new evidence of massive safety problems in the mine being ignored just weeks before the collapse.
During his weeks spent covering this story, Dan McDougall corresponded with trapped miner Edison Pena. The 34-year-old became known as "the Runner" after he coped with the long wait for rescue by running through the remaining tunnels and exercising.
In an interview with Panorama after he was freed along with his colleagues last week, Edison Pena said he feels that he is a changed man and "more human" for his ordeal.
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Lord Ashcroft, the biggest political donor since records began, . His millions helped bank-roll , but where does Lord Ashcroft's money come from?
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Since the case of Baby P, there has been a 40% increase in the number of children taken into care by the state. There are now 70,000 children being 'looked after' in the system. What happens to them? Can the system offer them a better life?
Panorama follows for six months to find out if the state can be a real parent - even though children in care are more at risk of failing school and committing crime than any other group.
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It seems barely a day goes by without another story.
Many firms have closed their final-salary pension schemes to new members and those that are in schemes are being told that they aren't paying enough. Add the fact that there's been an and it creates a worrying picture.
In Who Took My Pension? Panorama asks whether the fees and commissions that pension providers and fund managers take out of our pension funds are simply adding to the problems?
So rather than heading for retirement with a golden parachute, will many of us being left holding a lead balloon?
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