The Rent Trap: How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It (Left Book Club)

Walker, Rosie and Jeraj, Samir

ISBN 10: 0745336469 / ISBN 13: 9780745336466

Published by Pluto Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rent Trap: How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It (Left Book Club)
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745336469
• ISBN 13: 9780745336466
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

Deregulation, revenge evictions, corruption, and day-to-day instability: these are realities becoming ever more familiar for those of us who rent our homes or apartments. At the same time, house prices are skyrocketing and the promise of homeownership is now an impossible dream for many. This is the rent-trap, an inescapable consequence of market-induced inequality.
 
Samir Jeraj and Rosie Walker offer the first in-depth case study of the private rental sector in the United Kingdom, exploring the rent-trap injustices in a first-world economy and exposing the powers that conspire to oppose regulation. A quarter of British MPs are landlords; rent strike is almost impossible; and sudden evictions are growing. Nevertheless, drawing on inspiration from movements in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and elsewhere, The Rent Trap shows how people are starting to fight back against the financial burdens, health risks, and vicious behavior of landlords, working to create a world of fairer, safer housing for all—lessons that extend well beyond the borders of the UK.

About the Authors

Samir Jeraj is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Guardian, New Statesman and the New Internationalist.


Rosie Walker writes on housing, poverty, employment rights and debt. She was formerly a researcher for London School of Economics, University of Bristol, and University of Brighton, and was a journalist for the Independent.