[Bluey]

The stock of social housing is shrinking (reduction through buy to let, tenants living longer, population growth) and the appetite for private landlords to accept housing benefit or local housing allowance is not improving and could potentially get worse when HB is replaced with LHA.

Private landlords are generally averse to HB and aren't stepping into the vacuum caused by the lack of social housing - they aren't a branch of social services but run a business.

So there is some social housing and a small proportion of landlords accept claimants but it might get tougher if housing stock doesn't increase while the population does.