Her one-bedroom council flat is so damp and cold that the baby turns blue every night.
Some people cannot even obtain any form of council flat.
They will never qualify for a council flat because they are regarded by the council as adequately housed, yet their houses are grossly under-occupied.
It rehouses him in a council flat, for which he must pay rent, when, in his own property, he was not paying rent.
For example, the elderly lady living in a council flat is afraid to open the door.
People who are occupying a council flat are occupying that flat whether they are renting it or whether they own it.
Tenants who moved into a council flat when they had no children will have less chance of moving elsewhere when they have a family.
They never sought a council flat or housing here; they stayed in their cubicles in the seamen's hostel, where they remain to this day.