Can someone get housing benifit if there husband owns a house?

I'm an enginerer cause they ar close family friends I have to help them her husband owns a house but can SHE get housing benifit for a diffrent home|||God I hope not.|||If they are separated, and the house is in the husbands name only, then that won't affect a claim for housing benefit.|||NO WAY. Sorry. Unless she divorces him, and moves out and needs help of course. Otherwise this is not the way HB works.|||They'd need an awfully good reason I imagine.|||no, not unless she lives their permanently