{"product_id":"beyond-generation-rent-political-economy-inequality-and-the-private-rental-sector-paperback-softback-9781509563425","title":"Beyond Generation Rent; Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509563425","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeyond Generation Rent\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitical Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Byrne (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509563425, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 January 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'There's no place like home.'\" \u003ci\u003eBeyond Generation Rent\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracy Rosenthal, author of \u003ci\u003eAbolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKen Gibb, University of Glasgow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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 — from the USA to Australia, from Spain to Germany — 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking study, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Generation Rent\u003c\/i\u003e is crucial reading for housing researchers, policy-makers, activists and anyone who cares about decent housing for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: The Political Economy of the Private Rental Sector\u003cbr\u003e2. Conceptualizing Home Rent: The Micro-Political Economy of the Private Rental Sector\u003cbr\u003e3. The Revival of the Private Rental Sector: Neoliberalism, Financialization 1.0 and the Concentration of Property Ownership\u003cbr\u003e4. The Financialization of the Private Rental Sector: The Rise of Institutional Landlords\u003cbr\u003e5. Beyond Generation Rent? Housing Inequality and the Private Rental Sector\u003cbr\u003e6. Making a Home in Someone Else’s Asset: Insecurity and Power in Lightly Regulated Rental Markets\u003cbr\u003e7. The Politics of the Private Rental Sector: Tenants as Agents\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Transforming the Social Relations of Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economics%20%5BKC%5D%22\"\u003eKC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52460667732248,"sku":"9781509563425","price":16.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509563425.jpg?v=1785457450","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/beyond-generation-rent-political-economy-inequality-and-the-private-rental-sector-paperback-softback-9781509563425","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}