Book Club: The Rent Trap by Samir Jeraj and Rosie Walker

For September we will be holding an extra special addition of the HGP book club where we will be joined by Samir Jeraj, author of The Rent Trap.

 

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.

With the huge destabilisation of the coronavirus pandemic dispiritingly feeding further into inequality, this book feels more relevant than ever.

Order from one of our local bookshops (or borrow from a friend!)

https://pagesofhackney.co.uk/
http://www.stokenewingtonbookshop.co.uk/
https://www.broadwaybookshophackney.com/

https://burleyfisherbooks.com/
https://www.newhambooks.co.uk/

 

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WHEN
Wednesday 23 September 2020 at 7:30pm - 9pm
WHERE
The meeting will be held online. Please RSVP to see joining instructions.
CONTACT
Florence Wedmore ·
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