Generation Rent: a writer living in a shed on the best books on the housing crisis

From Knut Hamsun's Hunger to Richard McGuire's profound graphic novel Here, Homesick author Catrina Davies picks her favourites The word "rent" has two very different meanings. The first, from the Old French rente or rendre, means to pay or receive regular payments in exchange for the use of land or property. The second, from the Old English "rendan", means pulled asunder or in pieces: one's face, hair or clothes torn in grief or rage. Some readers will be renting happily, with good jobs, kind l...