To still feel slightly bitter about this? (Inheriting social housing)

[Buddybud]

I grew up in a two bed council house with my mother (single parent) and my sister in what could now be considered a highly gentrified area within walking distance of the city centre. My mother benefited from a life time tenancy. I left at eighteen to go to university, and my mother didn’t keep a place or bed for me. If I went back during the holidays i would have to sleep on the sofa which I found quite annoying especially when so many of my friends at Uni still had rooms in their parent’s houses. Fast forward a couple of years and I graduated, moved away, met my DH and we now have our own home but have been struggling with our mortgage due to cost of living, etc. My mother on the other hand remarried and moved in with her DH whilst putting my sister on the council house tenancy so my sister now has a life time tenancy with subsidised rent in an area I could never afford. Aibu to feel like that’s abit shitty?

I think it is excellent that a young woman is able to take over a council or HA tenancy, when their parent decides to live somewhere else, if it has been their home and they are still resident. The rules about this vary according to the individual council or HA. It would have been too much of a traumatic upheaval for her to have to find somewhere else at a young age. I'm glad for her and I would have thought the op would be too instead of resenting her sister.

I don't think it is. A family in a 2 bed need could have used that property. Instead a non priority need has inherited a long term tenancy.

I get that, Delightfuldays, or else allocate her a one bed place, but the woman's local authority obviously felt differently. It is what it is and must be accepted. Good luck to her.

That is how it is. If one of my parents dies, the other will still inherit the tenancy even though it is 3 bed and there will only be one person living there.
Councils do not kick people out for under occupying.

@XenoBitch I don't have a problem with it being passed to a partner. But I dont agree with a long term tenancy being passed to their child because the Mum has found a property elsewhere
Unfortunately the council allows this to happen.