Landlords without faces. Apartments without renters. A documentary exploring the new, unliveable city.

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unlivable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all. This is not gentrification, it’s a different kind of monster. The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she’s traveling the globe, trying to understand who’s being pushed out of the city and why. “I believe there’s a huge difference between housing as a commodity and gold as a commodity. Gold is not a human right, housing is,” says Leilani.

Together with the director and leading experts, we discuss the documentary and the financialisation of the Belgian housing market. We also draw inspiration from international responses by public, private and civil actors to this threat to the fundamental right to housing.

Speakers

• Fredrik Gertten - Director PUSH

• Prof. Dr. Manuel Aalbers - KU Leuven, Auteur van 'The Financialization of Housing' (2016)

• Line Algoed - COSMOPOLIS & co-Author 'On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust' (2020)

• Ann Verhetsel, UA, Real Estate expert

• Stijn Oosterlynck - UA, Urban Studies Institute (Moderator)

Watch the documentary on www.pushthefilm.com