Originally Posted by
cptdodger
I grew up in what we called a Corporation house, my mother grew up in the same house, and I was actually born there. My parents still live in the house ! It has been in our family since the early 1930's. Let's just say, thanks to the stigma of living in social housing, my school years were not the best, as I lived in what would be classed as an affluent area. Certainly, I bought a house in the 1990's, my (now ex) husband disappeared left me with two children and a mortgage (in Kent), he was supposedly paying half the mortgage, I didn't find out for nearly a year he had not been (he was first named), so tried to sell the house, but was stuck in negative equity, long story short the house was repossessed, because I could not pay the arrears and feed my children, so I am now in what you term as social housing. Myself and my partner did look at buying a house, but because of what happened to me, which was nothing to do with him, he was not allowed a mortgage, I am a liability, through no fault of my own.