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PG College Allocation timeframes/confusion - please help.

Hi everyone, I am writing this as a very upset PG unconditional offer holder because I have been pushed pillar to post for months with the uni and every time they get in contact with me it just gets worse and worse. I have watched over the last few weeks seemingly everyone else get their college allocations and start making friends whilst I've been sitting here waiting endlessly. Some of the posts on here are about a month old and talking about college offers.
I am a disabled unconditional offer holder and my initial battle was with disability services who managed to lose all of my information and didn't realise for 10 weeks! I had to resend everything after some long phone calls and lots of tears. I then got an email a week or so ago that they had approved 'mostly or entirely step free' access for my college and would endeavour to place me appropriately. I really don't mind which college they place me in as long as it is not on the Bailey as I don't think a single Bailey college (& Hild Bede) are actually accessible for my needs.
I had been under the impression that the university would just place me appropriately but this morning I have had an email asking me to rank colleges. Initially I was frustrated because they had said my needs were approved so I don't understand why I have to rank all 17 colleges if half of them are inappropriate for my needs, but the email also said to complete it within a week so they could allocate me by the start of June.
IT IS THE 26TH OF JUNE TODAY. THE 26TH.
I am so upset. I feel like I am the last person to get a say in which college I want to be in, and have a much smaller range of options than most students which is literally out of my control because I am *disabled*. It's really weighing on me that everyone else has been allocated and I've only just been given the option, and it's going to be a case of wherever has space left. If there's no space in an appropriate college, I'm worried they'll just stick me in one which isn't truly fit for my needs and I would be so put out if I couldn't access the same spaces as my peers.
It's beginning to feel like I am the lowest priority as a PG despite having access needs but this is also my first time at a collegiate university - I have worked my butt off for two gap years in the NHS to afford this and be able to go and do my degree at Durham but it's beginning to seem like I am not welcome and they can't be bothered accommodating me appropriately. This isn't even a question of whether there's accessible bedrooms because I'm ineligible for college accommodation as a part time PG, so I don't understand why it has taken so long for me to be offered a say in my college allocation.
Please - if you are a PG who HAS NOT yet received confirmation of what college they are in, drop me a comment so I know I'm not alone. I will be emailing the uni in the morning on account of asking me to rank all 17 colleges is a redundant exercise if half of them aren't suitable for my needs, but also that it's been a month since everyone else was allocated and I am still without a college.