Owned: A Tale of Two Americas.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 13116290 | KanopyPublisher: Visit Films, 2018Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
- computer
- online resource
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Greg Butler, Jim Klinge, Jimmy Silvestri
Originally produced by Visit Films in 2018.
The United States’ postwar housing policy created the world’s largest middle class. It also set America on two divergent paths -- one of imagined wealth, propped up by speculation and endless booms-and-busts, and the other in systematically defunded, segregated communities, where the American dream feels hopelessly out of reach. Some ten years after the last housing collapse and well into a perceived upswing, the election of Donald Trump and urban uprisings in places like Baltimore suggest that there’s a far more fundamental problem with housing policy in America. And we haven’t even begun to recover. Owned is a incisive look into the dark history behind the US housing economy. Tracking its overtly racist beginnings to its unbridled commoditization, the doc exposes a foundational story few Americans understand as their own.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English