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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

What two decades of renting in London has taught me

Jessica Regan was in Scotland over the summer performing a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe when she received a surprise call from her landlord. The news was not good. He was selling the house she had called home for six years and she needed to start packing her bags.

The timing was particularly ironic since Jessica’s show, 16 Postcodes, is about the highs and lows of two decades spent renting in London. “I am currently without a postcode,” said Jessica.

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