They want to put me in a box

I may be 62 and retired and have a few health issues but I'm certainly not ready to be put in a box of any kind. The house I have been living in for the last 25 years is rented privately from a landlady who didn't even come near the place for the first 22 years that I was living here and she is very reluctant to do any repairs or redecoration but still charges the earth in rent. In the time I have lived here I must have paid for it twice over and I know there was no mortgage on it when I moved in.
The house is very small and was built early in 1900 and is very expensive to heat and needs a new kitchen and bathroom because these are still stuck in the 1970's. It doesn't even have full double glazing. I pay as much in rent every month as most people pay when they have a mortgage and this has been set by the Fair Rent Office. I have never been in the privileged position of inheriting anything from my parents or anyone else and being a woman, my wages have always been very low especially when I was nursing just after my divorce many years ago. So I have never even had the chance to save for a deposit or had enough money to buy a house of my own as I have been struggling just to keep a roof over my head and buy a few sticks of secondhand or flat-pack furniture.
When I retired and discovered that, despite working all my life and having the right to a full state pension which can't be taxed, the Inland Revenue tax my very tiny occupational pension and out of that they also take tax for the state pension so I have virtually nothing left every month. On top of that, I tried to claim some help with my rent but the government says that I only need £130 per week to live on after my rent is paid and this has to cover everything including food, clothing, heating, insurances and council tax etc. I can tell you now that it's a struggle.
Because of this I put my name onto the social housing list in Wiltshire in order to find somewhere cheaper and so that I could move nearer to my daughter and grand-children as I am very isolated here and have never liked the city. I lived in Wiltshire for most of my life and only came here to work once I had qualified as a nurse so I want to move back to a small country town.
Every week the council puts the available properties onto their website and if you are interested in any you have to 'bid' for them. However, I can only 'bid' for old peoples properties which is fair enough but most of them are 'studio flats' and the bungalows are 'sheltered accommodation' with a warden.
I would love to have a bungalow but need a garden as this is one of my hobbies and helps to keep me fit and healthy. I also need somewhere that has a kitchen where I can cook a meal and entertain my family from time to time without them having to sit with food on their laps. I also want somewhere that has sufficient room for a washing machine, not 'the use of a laundry room' and I don't need a built in alarm or a warden.
Why is it that these people think that as you have no money, you don't own your own home, you have no interests and therefore you do not need to be independent because you are just waiting to die, so we will put you in a box before you get put into your final box.
It's little wonder that most people vegetate and die prematurely when everything is stripped from them, including their independence and dignity, and they have no interests or can't pursue them.
I am an independent, talented woman with a very active brain, I'm going to live to be 100 and I am NOT going to be put in any box before my time!