25 March. It’s the date that this year, based on my income and rent costs, I stopped working for my landlord and started working for myself – my ‘freedom from rent day’. I earn an average UK salary, live in a house-share and enjoy below market-rate rent for my city. For many of my friends and neighbours it will be June at least before their earnings are their own.
That people with more capital can build wealth off the back of the basic needs of those with less is one of the key features of most of the world’s economies and shelter is no exception. But is there a way we could do away with landlords?
