In the 1950s a couple moved into
in a 3 bedroomed council house with their two sons and one daughter. All of
their children married quite young and they were “empty nesters” before they
were 50. Under the current “bedroom tax” proposals, they would have either been
subject to a rental premium or they would have been forced to move house to a
smaller property.
It was a very good thing they
were able to stay in that house because not long afterwards, it meant that they
could adopt their grandson, who otherwise might have ended up in care.
The couple brought their grandson
up as if he was their own until their untimely deaths when he was still a very
young adult. Fortunately, he was able to inherit the tenancy and soon
afterwards, he married and had children of his own. His successful career in
the nuclear industry meant that he was eventually able to buy the council house.
When he had finished renovating the house to a very high standard, he traded up
to a Victorian Villa in town and he is renovating that house too.
Last time I checked, he was a
Tory voter (“Nana and Grandad would be turning in their grave”). But other than
that, his life is pretty sorted. How different things would have been with a
bedroom tax!
Rachel Burgin
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