SOLD CITY Showing

SOLD CITY Part 2 shows the supply of housing that low to normal-income citizens can afford is shrinking. The film looks at Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, London and Singapore and tells a story that is common to many cities across Europe, how the real estate boom coupled with sharply rising rents is pushing people out of the centre of cities. A turning point was reached when politicians in Europe decided to end the so-called “non-profit housing system". Housing has become a commodity changing the urban landscape.

There will be a panel discussion afterwards on whether policymakers have abandoned the most important aspect of housing policy, which should put people at the centre of it and their right to be housed? In London, we have lost 23,000 social housing homes in the past decade due to demolition and rebuild schemes, while only 12,050 new social-rented homes have been built. With 60,000 families…