A fly-on-the-wall documentary series that chronicles a dramatic period in the history of the Labour-controlled
London Borough of Lewisham. People Power. Working women with children have occupied the central library in a desperate effort to meet the council leader Steve Bullock. The borough's housing shortage is spotlighted when a pregnant homeless woman refuses the offer of a newly redecorated one-bedroomedflat because she discovers the previous tenant died there. With 17,000 people on the waiting list and only 3,000 properties a year to let, it may be her only chance of being rehoused.
Meanwhile the council moves slowly towards crisis as members fail to make the necessary cuts to the cherished education service.
Producers Malcolm Hirst and Charles Stewart
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