There Goes the Neighbourhood: Gentrification Hell
<p><em>Concrete Heart Land</em> / <em>Bleacher on the Rye</em> – Gentrification Double Bill</p> <p>Friday 30 May | 7PM | Cinema6</p> <p>Full Unemployment Cinema and Southwark Notes present an evening of films and presentations around the politics and economics of gentrification and ‘regeneration’ in south London. While in the midst of a widely acknowledged housing crisis London also seems to be in the grip of a malign spiral of development that threatens to displace many working class people from ‘their’ city. This process is exemplified by the recent ‘regeneration’ of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle that has led to the eviction and dispersal of long term tenants, a protracted struggle by leaseholders to secure equitable compensation and the eventual building of a private housing development with almost no social housing.</p>
Editors: Full Unemployment Cinema, Southwark Notes
Directors: Steven Ball, Rastko Novaković, Spectacle
Contributors: Southwark Notes, Sharon Zukin, Stephen Shukaitis, Anja Kanngieser, Chris Jones, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles
Part of: Full Unemployment Cinema