Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle (2017)
- Directed by
- Paul Sng
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 4.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
This documentary looks at why there is a shortage of social housing in Britain. It interviews residents, politicians, and experts about how council estates have been neglected and demolished in several cities.
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What happens
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a feature documentary, narrated by Maxine Peake, exploring the failures and deception that have caused a chronic shortage of social housing in Britain. The documentary focuses on the neglect, demolition and regeneration of council estates in London, Glasgow and Nottingham, and examines the human cost of the housing crisis via interviews with residents, politicians and housing experts in the building industry and media. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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