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Originally Posted by Accyexplorer
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I've had some mixed feelings about having to move if you can't afford to pay the rent for the empty bedroom, as I know of one family who bought a new build three bedroom Barratt home in the 1980s and then discovered that the small bedroom (what used to be termed a boxroom) wasn't quite long enough for a standard size single bed. Additionally, and mainly, my other reason was because the government said it had given councils extra money for special cases, which didn't seem to be acted upon.