Documentary Probes Impacts of ‘Financialization’ of Housing

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A still image from the documentary film “Push.”

In this Q&A from the opening night of the San Francisco Green Film Festival, documentarian Fredrik Gertten and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing Leilani Farha discuss Gertten’s documentary “Push,” which looks into the practices and impacts of investment firms buying up housing around the world.

“A lot of the debate we have is with their language. You said, ‘housing crisis.’ Is there a housing crisis? There’s a lot of houses in San Francisco — empty.” — Fredrik Gertten

“If we’re going to address it we have to understand the beast. And the beast is global. And it’s not gonna work to just do these little micro things that don’t grapple with the size of this and its global reach.” — Leilani Farha
 

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