Review: Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle. By: Emma Snaith

In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, it is agonisingly clear that housing has become the barometer of social inequality in the UK. Dispossession (2017) is a timely and deeply unsettling exploration of the neglect and chronic shortage of social housing in the UK. Using footage of brutalist skyscrapers and model garden estates juxtaposed with the gleaming edifices of new luxury private developments on council land, Paul Sing's documentary paints a disturbing portrait of the inequality engendere...