Tory Council to Force 21-Year-Olds to Share Rooms

A leading Conservative council is planning to require the children of social tenants to share a room up to the age of 22.  Kensington and Chelsea Council’s cabinet has approved reforms that could see new social tenants lose their homes if the property has become too big for their needs under the council’s strict size criteria.  It will allow one bedroom per adult or couple, but ‘children’, including young people aged up to 22, must share if they are of the same gender. Children aged under 10 must share regardless of gender. The size criteria are tougher than the rules the government intends to use for its controversial ‘bedroom tax’ social housing under-occupation penalty, which allow children separate rooms once they reach 16. Read more on Inside Housing.