The Rent Trap

How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It

Rosie Walker, Samir Jeraj

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Pluto Press
20 March 2016

Homelessness; Landlord & tenant law

Series: Left Book Club

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.

By: Rosie Walker, Samir Jeraj
Imprint: Pluto Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 222g
ISBN: 9780745336466
ISBN 10: 0745336469
Series: Left Book Club
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 20 March 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 her landlord for asking for a new chest of drawers.

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

Every private renter in the UK needs to buy this book so they can realise just how victimised they truly are by a housing situation that's rapidly destroying the chances of millions of people to live a decent life. -- Shiv Malik, Guardian investigative journalist and co-author of 'Jilted Generation' 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 and Samir Jeraj have explored all the possible escape routes and found the way out. -- Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford, and author of 'All That is Solid' (Penguin, 2015)