normalishdude
Sometimes. Depending on their previous situation. Before you get excited, take into account that council housing comes totally unfurnished. My one, to which I moved after having lived in a homelessness hostel for a year (and I lived in the hostel because my mother was so violent, that the next door neighbours called the police after witnessing it), did not have curtain poles. I didn't just have to buy curtains, I had to buy curtain poles and curtain rings!
I was quite happy to hang a spare sheet (not that I had many) over a curtain pole to be going on with, while I saved up for curtains, but in order to do that, I did need money for poles. And saving money for curtains, carpets, an actual bed is rather slow on £45 a week. These days, I believe the rate is £51 a week. Therefore, the council gave me a grant.
If you resent that grant, offset it against the cost of mental health support over twenty years that my mother didn't get, which helped make her the way she became. Offset it against the cost of the young carers' support I didn't get throughout my childhood, as she became worse and worse.
To be quite honest, I earned that grant, when I was being an emotional and physical punching bag for my mother, and acting as her carer and emotional bedrock. Social Services and the NHS have had to take on the work I did for free as a child. Good luck with that. I've retired from it.