Beyond Generation Rent

Name: Beyond Generation Rent
Brand: Polity Press
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Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector

By: Michael Byrne

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Hardcover | 24 March 2026 | Edition Number 1

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As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical account of the inequality at the heart of contemporary housing systems. Bringing together cutting-edge research and case studies from a host of countries â" from the USA to Australia, from Spain to Germany â" Michael Byrne examines inequality, financialization, the rise of 'generation landlord' and evictions. He analyses the everyday power dynamics between landlords and tenants and the social and economic structures that mean the ownership of residential property is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Moving beyond the kind of thinking that treats landlordism as natural and inevitable, Byrne's political economy framework demonstrates how declining homeownership and its consequences for inequality and housing justice are major political challenges for contemporary societies. At the same time, a new generation of tenant activism can point the way to fairer housing systems.

A groundbreaking study, Beyond Generation Rent is crucial reading for housing researchers, policy-makers, activists and anyone who cares about decent housing for all.

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"'There's no place like home.'" Beyond Generation Rent is a studied and decisive intervention that uses — and improves — the tools of political economy to rethink rent, home and the housing question. It offers new analytics to take on and take seriously the fundamental injustice of property relations, which forces tenants to make their lives in someone else's spare house."
Tracy Rosenthal, author of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

"Michael Byrne has produced a compelling synthesis of contemporary literature on private renting, tenant experiences, financialization and the political economy of housing, which sets out the many challenges facing tenants across the countries studied and discussed in this book. For readers wanting to understand the challenges facing the sector, and to debate ways forward, this should be required reading."
Ken Gibb, University of Glasgow

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