I'm in a similar situation. I earn slightly too much to get any help from ths DSS (or whatever incarnation they are this week), but earn nowhere near enough to get a mortgage on a place of my own.
'Affordable' housing - ie part-share schemes run by the local housing associations - would leave me begging on the streets to be able to buy food, and renting is not an option - starting at about £350 per month for a room in a shared house.
The only place I've found I can afford anywhere near Stratford in the last 8 years since I moved back to the area is a small garage sized prefab effort in a caravan park. I asked in the estate agent, and they said I had to be at least 50 to live in the park; might keep plugging away at it though - it's been for sale for at least 6 months at 2 different agents. They have to give in eventually!
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