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The Rent Trap: How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It
Rosie Walker
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Description for The Rent Trap: How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It
Paperback. An angry look at the private renting in the UK, including corruption, inequality and deregulation. Series: Left Book Club. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFB; LNSH3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 220.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
Series
Left Book Club
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745336466
SKU
9780745336466
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About Rosie Walker
Rosie Walker the co-author of The Rent Trap (Pluto, 2016), is a social policy writer and researcher interested in housing, inequality, employment rights and debt. She writes for the Guardian, Observer, Independent, Inside Housing and Third Sector. As a researcher she has worked for London School of Economics, University of Bristol and University of Brighton. She was once evicted by ... Read more
Reviews for The Rent Trap: How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It
'Everyone should read this book'
Left Foot Forward 'The authors skilfully weave together stories and statistics, giving you human depth of anecdotes backed up with evidence'
Green World 'It is time to change what is possible. Rents are too high. The quality of what is rented is too low. Rights are minimal. The market has failed. Rosie Walker ... Read more
Left Foot Forward 'The authors skilfully weave together stories and statistics, giving you human depth of anecdotes backed up with evidence'
Green World 'It is time to change what is possible. Rents are too high. The quality of what is rented is too low. Rights are minimal. The market has failed. Rosie Walker ... Read more