Housing Crisis Movies

Lili, a young girl, takes tender care of her beautiful cardboard house, until the landlord forces her out in the name of renovation and profit.

The availability of housing is a big topic today. It has the strongest impact on those who participate least in the public debate – low-income...

West Estate spotlights the severe housing problems in Hong Kong, taking the spirit of resistance outside of the protest. The damaged walls in the...

Too many stories can tell the horrible consequences of the housing crisis. Those of Jeannette and Frances make us feel the difficult experience of...

Where do you go when the average home price is $4.5 Million, the cheapest freestanding house costs $1.8 Million, and you're 30 miles out to sea? Room...

Five floors. Forty apartments. Rats, leaks and debts. In Pantin, I live in a building with a danger order. Under court order, we have to renovate it....

Chronicles the modern-day David and Goliath tale amidst North America's housing crisis. During the pandemic, Khaleel Seivwright, a young Toronto...

Mark Humphries examines Australia's housing crisis, with renters, journos and comics asking who broke the dream and how can the country fix it before...

Shot in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the documentary looks at what really happens with the money donated to help with disaster aid.

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall,...

"On that day, a building for the poor fell on top of the poor," is how Hazem El Moukaddem sums up the collapse of two buildings on rue d'Aubagne, in...

In rural Georgia, the 2008 recession rips nine-year-old Tommy out of the imaginary world he and his stepsister Mabel built, forcing him to reckon...

A short documentary chronicling the coming-of-age story of generation z punctuated by numerous culturally significant moments, known as period...

These are the future leaders of their communities. Ever wonder what it’s like to walk a day in their shoes? How the world looks through their...