how are single people supposed to afford the price of rent/housing is increasing?

pinkshoes

How old are you?

Most professionals house share until mid or even late 20s, so wanting your own pad might be a little ambitious.

I grew up in an area with few decent jobs, so moved 160 miles away when I was 18.

dimbo61

Have a look on easyroommate and spareroom, try gumtree as well.
Many people moving out of London and the south east and looking at other Cities Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds etc Because it is cheaper to rent.

Please do not think all Landlords are ripping people off.

Davesnave

pinkshoes wrote: »

I grew up in an area with few decent jobs, so moved 160 miles away when I was 18.

Me too, and although I had a decent job and qualifications, I shared a room with 3 others in a hostel, because that was where young people in my line of work usually started out. It was like being in school again.

After 6 months, I'd made enough good, trustworthy friends to join a flat share. Then, I was only sharing a room with one other. Luxury.

After another year, I went back home and signed up for university. Oh dear!

At uni I was first in 'digs' as a lodger, still sharing a room. In Year 2 I got a tiny room in a hall, and in Year 3, a house share. Wonderful!

Ah, but in Year 4, I was back to a bed-sit.

Finally, emerging from higher education, I had to go home to the parents because I was completely broke. There, I got a job that no one else would do, which paid more than the work I'd been training for, so after 6 months of that, I was finally able to rent my first flat.

I tell you all this, not because I think I had it tough, because I didn't, but because people often believe there was a golden era for housing. If there was, I missed it.

snowscreamer

I was lucky enough to be able to buy a flat when I was in my early 20s with help from my parents but in order to be able to comfortably afford fund the repayments I took in a lodger in my spare room. It was a small single room but in a very expensive location (even in terms of the SE) and I charged £450/month including all bills. I advertised on easyroommate and spareroom.co.uk - so echoing a post above I would suggest looking on there. There are loads of adverts for lodgers and/or tenants in shared houses and flats there. You may have to start at the cheap end of the market and make compromises (less convenient location for work / smaller room) but as you progress in your career you can trade up.
Just contact the advertisers of a few and arrange to meet up and view the house/room. If you don't get on with your potential housemate(s) then you can keep looking.

turtleneck

its all well and good saying move somewhere else, but what if you are a single person and dont know anybody anywhere else and all your family and friends are in the expensive place you cant afford?

i think the only option is sharing. would you say living in a shared house is any better than living at parents?

moneyistooshorttomention

Good luck and I must say I sympathise.

I was on a poor salary/single/living in a dear area and it was only a stroke of luck that meant I could manage to buy my starter house and that was years after I should have been able to/needed to. I had to do a lot of lateral thinking to get my housing situation sorted out (well it was either that or get married to someone suitable just for the sake of having two of us to buy a house together basically and I wasn't prepared to get married for the wrong reasons).

I hope you find a way.

Nada666

If you have been living with your parents why do you not have enough savings for a deposit for a mortgage?

£5 to £600 sounds cheap for a flat for two to share.

missbiggles1

stu12345 wrote: »

if you are 100% you dont have the qualifications to go to uni or rack up huge student debts,, you remain unskilled, so you consider looking for an employer that will train you for free.
but if you are sure that you dont have the intellect to move up to a job requiring lots of skills etc, then you have to think where can i work that is low skilled, but housing costs, transport is cheap.
but donot move to a high unemployment area even with cheap rent or low waiting time for council house, eg welsh valleys, north east.
find an area withbasic jobs , but cheap overheads,
i would honestly recommend stirling, grangemouth, scotland,somewhere near a big city or town, but not in it, but the town must not be dead like middlesborough, somehwere that has few public sector jobs, but more private sector.
my friend left school with no qaulifications , joined the navy and retired at 40, on a £15000 company pension.bough house also.
it can be done, but do not relocate to say skegness,blackpool, keep inland, and away from dead towns.regardless of how cheap the rent is.

There are plenty of ways you can improve your skills, employability and income that don't involve going to university! Visit any of your local colleges in the evening and see all the students doing skills based training in a variety of occupational areas to enable them to better themselves.

southoftheriver

I'm 29, on a good salary (although i'm in London so living costs are high) and i've been flat sharing since I graduated. I wouldn't even consider renting a flat alone as it would mean I would be unable to save much money. I'm about to move in with my fiance but otherwise I would be doing the same for the foreseeable future.

missbiggles1

turtleneck wrote: »

its all well and good saying move somewhere else, but what if you are a single person and dont know anybody anywhere else and all your family and friends are in the expensive place you cant afford?

So what - that's what many of us have done at some point in our lives, some several times.

Don't be such a wuss!