By Emma Jayne, 1650444348
If anyone knows of any alternative ways of housing to the conventional route of getting on the housing ladder, I'd really appreciate any advice you could give. I feel like we are going to be trapped in our little shitty house forever and I'm starting to feel really upset and fed up about the circumstances we are in. I feel like there's no way forward and we're just stuck. I've asked this on my FB page and here on PP, maybe not the most sensible places to look for advice but I really don't know where else to turn.
We've thought about:
- Buying a cheaper house in need of renovation and doing it up
- Buying land and building a house (would be great if land prices weren't so insane)
- Doing up something like an old garage or workshop for residential use
- Living in a static caravan on somebody's land (though I know better than anyone how tricky this can be because of planning law)
- Community living / 'co-housing'
- Tinyhouses / log cabins - but again there isn't much in the way of planning that seems to support this way of living
The whole mortgage route is proving tricky for us, and plus it feels almost hypocritical in a sense, to be buying into something which was not made with people like me in mind and has hindered, not helped us. I'm so tired of housing being this huge commodity. It's so hard not to be bitter when you've done everything 'right' and yet you can't even get a decent place to live. The worst part is, as part of my day job what I am often doing is helping already wealthy people get richer (sometimes with numerous houses, land etc) whilst I can't even afford just the one house that I need to live in , not make money from. I think what might happen is we will just move away altogether, out of Gloucestershire, into another region potentially or another country altogether as I am so done with this f*cking shit!!!