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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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For some peopIe, a housing crisis means not getting pIanning permission for a Ioft conversion. For others it means, quite simply, Iosing their home. Dispossession: The Great SociaI Housing SwindIe is a feature documentary directed by Paul Sng (SIeaford Mods lnvisibIe Britain) and narrated by Maxine Peake, exploring the catastrophic faiIures that have led to a chronic shortage of social housing in the UK. These faiIures include government poIicy that prevents local counciIs and housing associations from buiIding homes for the 1.4 miIlion peopIe on counciI housing waiting lists and the quarter of a miIlion homeless people in Britain. Or the deliberate neglect of counciI estates by local authorities that s used to justify regeneration projects with private developers, which often force those who cannot afford homes in the new properties to reIocate to other parts of the country, far from their families and support networks. With unprecedented access to residents, politicians and experts in the housing industry and media, Dispossession is the story of people fighting for their communities, of people who know the difference between a house and a home, and who beIieve that housing is a human right, not an expensive luxury. |
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