Fifth of eight programmes Another Country
With no hope of private lodging or council housing, and faced with DHSS regulations designed to stamp out 'scrounging' in bed and breakfast hotels, growing numbers of unemployed young people are forced to squat or sleep rough.
In the basement of a derelict London rock venue, Red
Herrings finds out what it's like to live in a refrigerator, and talks to two squatters' groups, Critical Mass and the Black Sheep Collective, who believe that the only solution to the housing crisis facing young people lies in direct action.
Film editor HORACIO QUEIRO Produced by CHRIS LENT
(Postponed from 23 January)
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