Nick Bano

Against Landlords overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the blame squarely at the feet of landlordism, which boosts house prices and makes tenancy unaffordable. Furthermore, building more housing is not the solution. It is firstly a problem of the law, and...

Britain has become a nation of renters and landlords, and building more housing is not the solution. In his radical new interpretation of the housing crisis, lawyer Nick Bano proposes that it is rent, not house prices, that is at the core of the problem. Despite economic boom and bust, why has the cost of housing continued to skyrocket since...