Yeah this. ^ If people have been in a secure-tenancy 3/4 bed council/HA house for 30+ years and are now classed as having too many bedrooms (so need to LEAVE,) they need to be offered a bungalow (preferably 2 bed,) or a 2 bed house with a garden. Basically like for like of what they have now but smaller, in the same area OR another area of their choice.
My friend - a widow aged 57 who lost her DH in 2019, is in a 3 bed house with no kids there for 12 years. She has been asked a few times if she will move/downsize, but she says unless they give her a bungalow in the village she is in, (or one of 3 other villages within 2 miles,) it's a round fat NO. The list for these bungalows would go twice around Mount Snowdon. She is 'under-occupied' so is fairly high on the list, but despite bidding on some 20 bungalows for 3 years or so, she has had no luck. They don't come up too often, maybe one a month in one of the 4 villages, but she has never come higher than 15th/16th...
She works, and can afford the rent on her 3 bed house. Indeed the rent is cheaper than a 1 bed flat to rent privately, and only about £20 a week more than a 1 bed council flat. She said like fucking hell is she moving into a shitty squalid 1 bed flat with no garden in a crappy, high crime area, with pot smokers and gangs of teens/young 20-somethings hanging around in the stairwells, and doing wheelies in a stolen ford focus on the communal car park. No garden, no driveway, no garage, no washing line of her own, no privacy, nowhere for her to sit in peace sunbathing or reading, no security for her car, and neighbours above, below, to the right, and to the left.
So unless people are offered what they desire, why the fuck should they move? I know I wouldn't.