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financialised world kemp, PA (ed.), Policy Press, Bristol, 2023, iSBN 978-1-4473-6208-1, pp. 286. kemp and collaborators’ volume is an important, timely depiction of the return to private renting across high-income countries. The book is structured through 12 chapters, with the first and last, authored by kemp, serving as an introduction and conclusion. The penultimate chapter offers a reflection on the effects of Covid-19, which substantially impacted rental sectors throughout the time of writing and continued to play an important role at the time of publication in 2023. The other nine chapters address private renting across nine countries, namely Australia, United States, ireland, england, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Spain.

Before turning attention to geographic variations of private rental transformations, the introduction describes transnational trends in the tenure, leading up to the global financial …