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We are currently desperate for a bigger property, since we have a new baby on the way in May. So far we have found it a nightmare. Landlords/landladies keep turning us away because we're "not in full time employment". We are infact full time carers for our 2 disabled children. Despite knowing this fact, we keep getting turned away. They like to use the excuse that the mortgage won't allow dss tenants. We happen to know that this is not true, and is purely an excuse. Here's the confusing bit. Someone who is employed could lose their job tomorrow, and not be able to afford the rent. Our kids are not going to stop being disabled, and the benefits are not going to stop. So it logically cannot be a decision based on financial security. It leaves me to believe that it is pure discrimination. Sorry for my first post to be an angry rant, but I feel the need to spread the awareness that this is happening in Bedlington. Greetings everybody, by the way

You would think, wouldn't you. They have been built on the same foundations of the old houses thus enabling the relatively quick build times - no idea about the build quality but you get a generous sized house and many of them have fantastic big garden plots. Unlike the £200k box with a shoebox-sized garden you get in the new build private estates! I had heard that there would be quite strict rules about taking care of the new properties and tenants who didn't would be evicted? I was also told the same tenants would be moved back in after the builds which I found surprising. I would not like to generalise for all the tenants but there is a small minority who seem to be up all night banging and smashing things (often provoking my hubby and I to wonder what are they DOING?) and playing their duf-duf music. They also like to chuck stuff over into my allotment plot eg vodka bottles and scrap metal and indeed ruined my greenhouse by doing this! These are well known "problem" tenants & it seems totally crazy of the housing association to let them loose on these nice new properties! Oh well, I expect the Tories will insist on flogging them off some time in the not too distant future.