Meanwhile all those of us who scraped up the cash to buy our houses all those years ago at a massive discount can have as many rooms as the house can hold.

The sell-off of social housing, and the refusal of central government to allow the money to be used to build fresh social housing for the future are the reasons there is such a terrible shortage now. Messing around with a vulnerable minority of tenants whose circumstances mean they are entitled to Housing Benefit doesn't do anything significant to solve this consequence of a shameful failure of society to plan ahead.