After four years, and multiple assessments, Tria was allocated a wheelchair accessible flat. Six months later, bedroom tax classified her as having a spare room. She says, “I didn’t even ask for a two-bedroom flat in the first place. No one on the estate asked for two-bedroom flats and we’ve got nowhere else to go. There are no one-bedroom houses in our area anymore because they didn’t build any to replace the ones they were knocking down.” As the estate prepares for a boycott of bedroom tax, she says, “We can’t downsize, most of us, because they were adapted flats for disabled people and most of us who’ve had adaptations have had to build from scratch. If they tried to downsize all of us, there’s just nowhere to go.”

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