The council has 217 four-bedroom homes, with 122 occupied by a single person.

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Because of HUD regulation, they have to go to the person who last occupied the unit and then the other tenant of that development.

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Inspectors were also concerned there was nowhere that could be used when patients became distressed or agitated because the intensive care suite had been permanently occupied for several months by one person.

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