The Rent Trap: How We Fell Into It And How We Get Out Of It, written by journalist Samir Jeraj and housing campaigner Rosie Walker, explores the dysfunctional private rented sector in the UK and discuss ways to fight against it. Deregulation, revenge evictions, corruption, and day-to-day instability: these are realities becoming ever more familiar for those of us who rent our homes or apartments. At the same time, house prices are skyrocketing and the promise of homeownership is now an impossible dream for many. This is the rent-trap, an inescapable consequence of market-induced inequality. Samir Jeraj and Rosie Walker offer the first in-depth case study of the private rental sector in the United Kingdom, exploring the rent-trap injustices in a first-world economy and exposing the powers that conspire to oppose regulation. A quarter of British MPs are landlords; rent strike is almost impossible; and sudden evictions are growing. Nevertheless, drawing on inspiration from movements in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and elsewhere, The Rent Trap shows how people are starting to fight back against the financial burdens, health risks, and vicious behaviour of landlords, working to create a world of fairer, safer housing for all – lessons that extend well beyond the borders of the UK. This event is free, but entry is guaranteed. You need to be registered to book, but rest assured, we won't charge you a penny.