Websites offering social housing tenants the chance to
avoid the bedroom tax by swapping homes have reported a huge rise in the number
of users. The biggest site, HomeSwapper, said the number of properties being
listed so occupants could move somewhere smaller had increased by a third. It
said there were nearly 52,000 spare bedrooms in properties available for
swapping. Another website, House Exchange, said registrations from potential
downsizers were up by 49% year-on-year. Read more on the Guardian website.
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