The real villain in the affordable-housing emergency is not avocado-eating creatives but the financial elites, according to this sobering documentary
Don’t blame gentrification for pushing the poor out of inner cities. That’s the message of this plausible investigative documentary from Swedish journalist Fredrik Gertten, who zooms out to take a global view of rising rents. The real villain in the affordable-housing crisis, his argument goes, is not avocado-eating young creatives but the financial elites. And Gertten does a decent job of delivering an economics lesson, explaining the complexities of the “financialisation” of residential real estate; most politicians, apparently, just don’t get it.
At the heart of the film is Leilani Farha, a Canadian human rights lawyer working as the Un’s special rapporteur on adequate housing. With her hippy haircut and activist approach of getting stuck in, she flies around the world talking to people affected by rising housing costs.
Don’t blame gentrification for pushing the poor out of inner cities. That’s the message of this plausible investigative documentary from Swedish journalist Fredrik Gertten, who zooms out to take a global view of rising rents. The real villain in the affordable-housing crisis, his argument goes, is not avocado-eating young creatives but the financial elites. And Gertten does a decent job of delivering an economics lesson, explaining the complexities of the “financialisation” of residential real estate; most politicians, apparently, just don’t get it.
At the heart of the film is Leilani Farha, a Canadian human rights lawyer working as the Un’s special rapporteur on adequate housing. With her hippy haircut and activist approach of getting stuck in, she flies around the world talking to people affected by rising housing costs.
- 2/26/2020
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
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