Council tenants can rent out spare rooms?

Is this designed to cause confusion?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9970594/Council-tenants-can-rent-out-spare-rooms.html

So corporate councils can demand tax that pays for their pensions, expenses, investments, courses, etc, damage peoples' lives, cut public services to pay their bankrupt corporate profits, but also 'allow' council tenants to rent their spare rooms?
You couldn't make this nonsense up!