‘I was able to buy my home outright, thanks to shared ownership’

Joanne managed to staircase her way to full ownership after 12 years (Picture: RJ Photographics)Back in 2009, Joanne Royston was working as a telephone fundraiser for a charity in central London and living in a rented flat when she came across shared ownership and decided to look into it.
This was the first in a series of steps in her journey to owning a home outright.She says: ‘I’d been renting a little flat in south-east London and was keen to buy a place of my own somewhere in the