Housing benefit rent from parent?

[IDoDaChaCha]

In short, my mum is buying an investment property and has offered to rent it to me. I'm in social housing on housing benefit with horrible neighbours so I'm keen to move on.

She rang the council who said she has to have rented to the open market before she can rent to family and the rent be covered by housing benefit.

Does anyone know how long she'd need to rent on the open market before I could get housing benefit renting from her? x

I also see that it is not up to parents to buy their children houses - it is just interesting to see that adult children aren't the responsibility of their parents, who gave birth to them - as they are adults now - but the state taxpayer IS responsible.

This^

One consideration is that housing benefit will not be paid where a relative owns the house if the house is deemed too big or the rent too high and the renter is the first tenant
As all councils set LHA rates at the 30th percentile, it doesn't matter what rent is charged because they will not to able to claim more than the LHA rate anyway.

The rent being too high is not a consideration at all