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Push

Push

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 6, 2019

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

78%

Original Title

Push

Production Companies

WG Film AB

Director

Fredrik Gertten

Description

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable 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 travelling 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.