Available online
Description
This fifty-minute programme is linked to Unit 11 Inequalities in Housing. Inequalities are to be found not only in physical housing conditions, but also in access to housing, financial gains and lo...sses and security of tenure. A film (34mins) is presented as an exercise in using film as evidence. In it, four households living in close proximity in Hackney talk about their housing situation - an elderly housing association tenant who has recently left very poor quality privately rented accommodation; a young couple with four children living in a renovated house owned by the local authority; a wealthy owner-occupier couple who have renovated their house; and a couple with 3 children who cannot afford to maintain the house they own, and are moving out of the area to council accommodation tied to council employment. During the film, an officer of the Hackney Housing Service comments on the situations of the households interviewed and outlines local authority policy. After the film, three academics in the studio present their interpretation of what they have seen in the film. Their viewpoints differ according to their discipline (economics, social policy, urban studies), and their fundamental assumptions. Prescriptions for housing policy vary from ending rent control and subsidies to council tenants and owner-occupiers to the nationalisation of land and of the building trade.
This fifty-minute programme is linked to Unit 11 Inequalities in Housing. Inequalities are to be found not only in physical housing conditions, but also in access to housing, financial gains and lo...sses and security of tenure. A film (34mins) is presented as an exercise in using film as evidence. In it, four households living in close proximity in Hackney talk about their housing situation - an elderly housing association tenant who has recently left very poor quality privately rented accommodation; a young couple with four children living in a renovated house owned by the local authority; a wealthy owner-occupier couple who have renovated their house; and a couple with 3 children who cannot afford to maintain the house they own, and are moving out of the area to council accommodation tied to council employment. During the film, an officer of the Hackney Housing Service comments on the situations of the households interviewed and outlines local authority policy. After the film, three academics in the studio present their interpretation of what they have seen in the film. Their viewpoints differ according to their discipline (economics, social policy, urban studies), and their fundamental assumptions. Prescriptions for housing policy vary from ending rent control and subsidies to council tenants and owner-occupiers to the nationalisation of land and of the building trade.
| Module code and title: | D302, Patterns of inequality |
|---|---|
| Item code: | D302; 05; 1980 |
| First transmission date: | 14-04-1980 |
| Published: | 1980 |
| Rights Statement: | |
| Restrictions on use: | |
| Duration: | 00:49:17 |
| + Show more... | |
| Producer: | Jeremy Cooper |
| Contributors: | Martin Boddy; Linda McDowell; David Stafford; Clare Ungerson; Nick: Finsberg, Geoffrey: Wates, Nick: Stallard, Jock: Greengrass, Alan Mills |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Housing; Inequality: Camden housing: |
| Production number: | FOUD098T |
| Videofinder number: | 186 |
| Available to public: | no |
