Nc and posting here for trafffic
I am looking for a new place to live as where I am just now is getting less and less manageable for me (disabled)
I am looking at both social housing and private let’s and possibly even considering buying perhaps a shared ownership scheme accessing various other schemes etc
I have been looking quite determinedly for about a month now
The market is incredibly tricky to work with at the moment but what I’m getting most frustrated with is the discrimination I am still facing as a potential private tenant who is on benefits.
I have never missed a rent payment in my life, I have a good credit history.
Social housing there Is very very little available. I’m often 75+ in the “queue” (bidding system)
I succumbed to trying the private market but the difficulty is I keep missing out and of course the letting agents aren’t allowed to tell me exactly why.
I think I can guess.
Can anyone suggest how I might be able to improve my luck?
Can anyone advise me on how possibly buying/shared ownership works? As the info I’m finding online is so confusing and often conflicting. I have tried speaking to organisations that are supposed to help with this stuff but either I can’t get through to them or they don’t seem particularly well informed themselves when I do.
Why does it have to be so complicated?
Anyone else in the same boat care to commiserate even?