The Rent Trap: How We Fell into It and How We Get Out of It - Couverture souple

Walker, Rosie; Jeraj, Samir

 
9780745336466: The Rent Trap: How We Fell into It and How We Get Out of It
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0745336469 ISBN 13 : 9780745336466
Editeur : Pluto Press, 2016

Synopsis

Deregulation, revenge evictions, parliamentary corruption and day-to-day instability: these are the realities for the eleven million people currently renting privately in the UK. At the same time, house prices are skyrocketing and the generational promise of home ownership 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 critical account of what is really going on in the private rented sector and expose the powers which are conspiring to oppose regulation. A quarter of British MPs are landlords, rent strike is almost impossible and snap evictions are growing, but in the light of these hurdles The Rent Trap will show how people are starting to fight back.

Drawing on inspiration from movements in the UK, Europe and further afield, The Rent Trap will cohere current experiences of those fighting the financial burdens, health risks and vicious behaviour of landlords in an attempt to put an end to the dominant narratives that normalise rent extraction and undermine our fundamental rights.

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À propos de l'auteur

Samir Jeraj is a journalist who specialises in housing and worked as a city councillor. His work has appeared in the Guardian, New Statesman and the New Internationalist. He has carried out investigations on the bedroom tax, crisis financial support and drone warfare.

Rosie Walker is a writer and researcher interested in housing, poverty, employment rights and debt. She has worked as a researcher for LSE, University of Bristol and University of Brighton, and as a journalist for The Independent and Third Sector. While writing an MSc dissertation on private renting, she was evicted by her landlord for asking for a new chest of drawers.

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Éditeur
Pluto Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745336469
ISBN 13 
9780745336466
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
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