[MargaretR]

There are many elderly folk living in houses with unused bedrooms.
It would be better for them to move to smaller social housing.
The prospect of moving is traumatic when you are elderly and in failing health.
Rather than just throw money at them, what they need is a team of people dedicated to-
showing them other houses/flats and offering them the choice
taking on the organisation of packing/removal
and paying for all of it, including carpets, curtains and their fitting.
Then we may see more houses freed up for family occupation