Samir Jeraj is a journalist with a focus on issues in private rented housing. He was a Green Party councillor in Norwich from 2008 to 2012. He’s the author of The Rent Trap with Rosie Walker, and can be found on twitter as @sajeraj
Articles
07.04.2021
How Greens in Government Are Tackling Homelessness
Greens are driving responses to homelessness but the pandemic and the lack of support from governments threaten to set back these efforts.
Read more18.09.2020
Anti-Racist Politics in Practice: Greens and Black Lives Matter
Green parties are vocal advocates of racial justice, but does the rhetoric match the reality?
Read more24.08.2018
The New Urban Crisis: A Manifesto for the Status Quo
Growing inequality has become a hallmark of many cities. For this reviewer, Richard Florida's latest book is a worrying prescription for more of the same.
Read more25.11.2017
Guardians of the Property: Pop-up Housing for Pop-up People
A new housing phenomenon is spreading across Europe's cities - is it a Bohemian, win-win solution or does it exemplify the entrenchment of precarity into new spheres?
Read more21.06.2017
Destruction by Deregulation: the Grenfell Tower Fire
In order to make sense of this month's devastating fire in London, it has to be placed in a context of austerity, deregulation & privatisation.
Read more22.05.2015
‘Social Housing, Not Social Cleansing’ – The Case of the Focus E15 Mums
The UK faces a housing crisis. It is this crisis, and the growing number of evictions that are mobilising people to campaign on housing. A group of young mothers fights back with direct action.
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