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The rent trap : how we fell into it and how we get out of it

✍ Scribed by Walker, Rosie; Jeraj, Samir

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Leaves
193
Series
Left Book Club
Category
Library
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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.
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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 allβ€”lessons that extend well beyond the borders of the UK.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. The Rent Trap - Rosie Walker2. No Rights - Rosie Walker3. No Money - Samir Jeraj4. No Health - Samir Jeraj5. No More - Rosie Walker6. The History of Private Renting - Samir Jeraj7. The Inequality Machine - Rosie Walker8. Alternatives - Samir JerajAppendix: How to take your landlord to court - Dirghayu PatelNotesIndex9. Opting out of the System: Radical Alternatives

✦ Subjects

Housing -- Costs.;Rental housing -- Great Britain.;Discrimination in housing -- Great Britain.;Housing -- Prices -- Great Britain.;Apartment dwellers -- Great Britain -- Finance, Personal.

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