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Podcast: New Books in Politics and Polemics
Episode: Ricardo Tranjan, "The Tenant Class" (Between the Lines, 2023)
Description: Today I talked to Ricardo Tranjan about his book The Tenant Class (Between the Lines, 2023).Itâs well known and almost taken for granted that we live in the midst of a âhousing crisisââsoaring rent, persistently low vacancy rate, and deteriorating quality of existing housing stock plague renters throughout Canada. But if a crisis is defined by being sudden and often short-term, by being largely incidental and without malicious intent, and by a tendency to produce broad social solidarity, Ricardo Tranjan argues that the present housing situation is anything but a âcrisis.â Instead, Tranjan persuasively shows that what the te...