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• The Rent Trap: How We Fell Into It and How We Get Out of It, Samir Jeraj and Rosie Walker (Pluto Press/Left Book Club, £12.99)
THE night after I read the first chapter of The Rent Trap I was assaulted by a series of anxiety dreams.
They were populated by rogue landlords locking me out of my own home and emails warning that my rent was now going up by 10 per cent.
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