DISPOSSESION: THE GREAT SOCIAL HOUSING SWINDLE

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Benefits Street, Community, council housing, Dispossession, documentary, film, food banks, Glasgow, homelessness, housing estates, Jan McLachlan, Karen Cully, london, Maxine Peake, Nottingham, Paul Sng, poverty porn, public service cuts, Radical Routes, Samir Jeraj, screening, social housing, social isolation, Su Langdon, The Great Social Housing Swindle, The People's Picnic, The Rent Trap.

by Eli Lambe

Released shortly before the disaster at Grenfell, Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a timely and balanced exploration of the factors that led to the tragedy, and to the wider social cleansing of working class and low income communities throughout the UK. Introducing the film to a packed room in Norwich’s Cinema City, director Paul Sng emphasised the need to counter the “media culture of denigrating people who live in social housing”. The goal of the film, for Sng, was to show that people living in these estates and situations are valuable in themselves, and that the communities that exist there are important and should be preserved, as well as highlighting how this is overshadowed constantly by the prioritisation of profit and private sector gains.

GRENFELL & BRITAIN’S SOCIAL HOUSING CRISIS

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged borough council, class, cuts, fire, fire safety, gentrification, Grenfell tower, house prices, Housing and Planning Act, housing estates, Kensingtion & Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation, Labour, Lakanal house, landlords, london, politics, private housing, private renting, rent, social housing, Southwark, student accommodation, students, tenants' rights, Tories, W11.

by Robyn Banks

CW: discusses the Grenfell tower fire

I grew up in social housing. The estate I lived in was split between those who were lucky enough to own their house and those who relied upon housing associations to provide accommodation for them. The latter group, which includes my family, found that their houses were painted an obnoxiously bright yellow, for no other reason than to make those houses easily identifiable to the housing association and the rest of the neighbours. It was a big bright mark to ensure it was known that you lived in social housing.

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