When looking at housing sometimes home ownership is over-looked as too expensive or excluded by people because they think they do not have the capacity to understand a mortgage or a tenancy!
This is wrong!
These links will give you a good idea about what Shared Ownership is all about. It is possible for many people.
http://www.mysafehome.info/home-ownershi...hared-ownership
http://www.advanceuk.org/index.asp?m=647&t=Shared+Ownership

Attached is also a helpful checklist and step by step guide I developed when I was with NEW Devon CCG to see if you are eligible for Shared Ownership

I am a Life Planning Facilitator; that means I help people and those that know them well think together about what they want and need for a good life. Life Planning is not rocket science! It's the most sensible and common sense way of helping a person and their loved ones think about the future and can be a really useful way of putting together a 'service specification' (I'm not always happy with this term however, in its loosest form it means all the things including a house, help either paid or unpaid, and everything else that might be needed to get a person a good life!) that can then be used to get the right people and things on board to make things happen. I attach some info that I send out to Families to explain how to prepare for a Life Planning day and there is also preparation info for the person and other people attending. What do you think?