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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Rent Trap: How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It

The Rent Trap: How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It

Walker, Rosie
Jeraj, Samir

Paperback

Series: Left Book Club

General Political SciencePoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0745336469
ISBN13: 9780745336466
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: Mar 20 2016
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
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.

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