Nick Bano is an author and Barrister who specialises in representing homeless people, residential occupiers, and destitute and migrant households. he has written in Tribune, the New Socialist, and Jacobin.
So much more than 'another book about the housing crisis', Against Landlords is a book which takes aim at lazy thinking on all sides of the housing debate. Rooted in a deep knowledge of housing law - and its effects on those whose lives are made miserable by Britain's housing system - Bano combines histories from both below and above. He describes with controlled anger how the British state consciously created a landlord's paradise, and how easily things could be otherwise. Indeed, as he makes clear against fashionable fatalism, we've solved this problem before, and could so again. -- Owen Hatherley, author of <i>Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances</i> Essential reading for everyone in the housing movement, and anyone else who wants to understand the central role of housing-wealth generation and exploitation in the British economy. Debunking conventional thinking about the housing system, Against Landlords offers a clear and convincing explanation of how we got into the current crisis, and, most importantly, how we can begin to get out of it. -- Alva Gotby, author of <i>They Call It Love</i>