Public Housing

Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst...

Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

Regard sur un grand ensemble de logements sociaux, Ida B. Wells a Chicago, ou une population marginalisée vit dans une situation...

This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they...

Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to...

via print and film, love and music, state propaganda and people's archives, five-year plans and Emergency.

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building...

Hometopia is a short animation reflecting upon the ubiquitous but wildly despised British council housing. The animation takes on the tone of a...

West Estate spotlights the severe housing problems in Hong Kong, taking the spirit of resistance outside of the protest. The damaged walls in the...

A 1975 documentary short about a strike being conducted by public-housing residents in St. Louis.

The PJs is an American stop-motion animated television series, created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins. It portrayed life in an...

Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle...

The series sheds light on the struggles and aspirations of residents in public housing areas around Western Sydney; areas which have been commonly...