Snapshot: How working class people made history in the 1930s rent strikes

Exorbitant rents, run-down and cramped houses, and greedy landlords.

It’s a picture that may be familiar to many renters in the UK in 2023, but nearly a century ago, working-class Londoners decided they wouldn’t take it lying down.

The East End had a reputation for poverty, overcrowding and violence in the 1930s. Housing stock was poor as the population grew more quickly than accommodation.

Homes were badly maintained, overrun…