Generation Rent: The Inequalities of the Private Lettings System - Part One
Book Details
Author(s)M. W. Leeming
PublisherM. W. Leeming
ISBN / ASINB0115SCSGE
ISBN-13978B0115SCSG3
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
Description
“Justice will never be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.†Benjamin Franklin.
In 2014, Shelter found that the equivalent of 8,000 families per month were evicted from rented accommodation. That’s 96,000 in one year. And over Christmas of the same year, over 90,000 families were registered homeless. Often, privately rented houses aren’t up to a decent standard, and eviction is a threat faced by those who want to complain.
Whilst landlords fight for more protection, it comes at the cost of protection, stability and fairness for tenants. And letting agents are seizing the "best business opportunity" created by our National Housing Crisis to rake in cash by exploiting the needy.
The private renting system is unfair. Most tenants just want to live normally, yet find that they are the least secure party in a system that is content to keep it rigged in favour of the landlords.
This book is an examination of the chronology of several tenancy disputes I've had over the years, and my opinion on the wider failings of the private renting system.
It is a call for change.
(This book contains a ton of swearing...so if you don't like swearing, don't say you weren't warned.)
In 2014, Shelter found that the equivalent of 8,000 families per month were evicted from rented accommodation. That’s 96,000 in one year. And over Christmas of the same year, over 90,000 families were registered homeless. Often, privately rented houses aren’t up to a decent standard, and eviction is a threat faced by those who want to complain.
Whilst landlords fight for more protection, it comes at the cost of protection, stability and fairness for tenants. And letting agents are seizing the "best business opportunity" created by our National Housing Crisis to rake in cash by exploiting the needy.
The private renting system is unfair. Most tenants just want to live normally, yet find that they are the least secure party in a system that is content to keep it rigged in favour of the landlords.
This book is an examination of the chronology of several tenancy disputes I've had over the years, and my opinion on the wider failings of the private renting system.
It is a call for change.
(This book contains a ton of swearing...so if you don't like swearing, don't say you weren't warned.)
