ABSTRACT
Tenants are outsiders in a society fixated on home ownership, and yet a new ‘generation rent’ finds itself shoe-horned into a private rental sector that is largely unregulated, over-priced, and to a significant extent unfit. High-quality rented social housing – provided by public bodies, co-operatives and not-for-profit organisations – is severely rationed, and everywhere under attack by states enamoured of the illusory benefits of a free market. The question of how tenants can organise collectively, what their aims should be, and how they can achieve them are pressing matters for these times.
