DISPOSSESSION: THE GREAT SOCIAL HOUSING SWINDLE continues to make its impact on audiences nationwide with sell-out screenings and discussions, as well as forging new campaigns.
Narrated by Maxine Peake, the powerful documentary is directed by Paul Sng.
By popular demand the film returns to London cinemas on Friday 4th August for a week at Picturehouse Central, underlining the overwhelming response to the issues it raises, and this has led to repeat performance in Nottingham, Birmingham, Cardiff and Glasgow, as well as broadening the debate with first-time showings in Cambridge, Belfast, Liverpool and Manchester.
Paul Sng says, “The responses from audiences to _Dispossession_ have ranged from anger over the failure of successive governments to provide a sufficient quantity of social housing, to bewilderment at local authorities for their neglect and mismanagement of council estates such as the Aylesbury and Cressingham Gardens.”
He continues. “It’s clear that there is a great deal of willingness from both the public and the hundreds of people working within the housing industry who have seen Dispossession to find solutions, yet there has been minimal support from politicians so far, with the exception of Sian Berry from the London Assembly and the MPs Caroline Lucas and Wera Hobhouse. The people who really need to see this film are the 650 MPs on their summer holidays.”
