NO PLACE TO CALL HOME
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/CAMERA
BBC STUDIOS FOR BBC TWO
GRIERSON NOMINATED, BEST SINGLE DOCUMENTARY - DOMESTIC 2017
Fifty years ago the acclaimed Cathy Come Home shone a powerful light on the desperate housing problems gripping Britain. Now, in 2016, this country is once again at the mercy of a housing meltdown - a lack of affordable homes, sky-high rents, 70 percent of council housing stock sold, a rise in homelessness.
The housing officers in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham face daily queues of angry residents desperate for help: most are facing eviction. As one beleaguered housing officer says: "We are a housing options service without any options... I didn’t get into housing to make people homeless."
Filmed over nine months, this film shows us a whole new generation desperately looking in vain for a place to call home.
