The Rent Trap

The Rent Trap How We Fell Into It and How We Get Out of It - Left Book Club

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Publisher's 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.

Rosie Walker and Samir Jeraj offer the first critical account of what is really going on in the private rented sector and expose the powers 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 shows how to fight back.

Drawing on inspiration from movements in the UK, Europe and further afield, The Rent Trap coheres 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.

Published in partnership with the Left Book Club.

Book information

ISBN: 9780745336466
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 363.50941
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 220g
Height: 131mm
Width: 196mm
Spine width: 14mm