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
18.09.2020
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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