'Housing benefit change will help'

Kellie Parsons lives in a one bedroom flat with her three-year-old son, Dylan, in Dukinfield, Greater Manchester.

Kellie and Dylan have to share the bedroom and their cramped flat has no room for Dylan to play safely. Kelly has been trying to move to a bigger flat for three years - since becoming pregnant.

She hopes that the housing benefit changes will be an incentive for people to downsize from bigger properties, allowing her to exchange via home swap scheme

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