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We're Not for Sale

This is my home, and I'm not going to let anybody whose never even seen the place tell me what to do with it. SUSAN, council tenant With the setting up of Housing Action Trusts, tenants on council estates in Sunderland are in the frontline of the Government's plans for deregulation and privatisation of public sector housing. STAND is the tenants'group opposed to the Sunderland HAT. They fear higher market rents and token accountability could threaten the roofs over their heads. This film examines the controversial housing policy and charts the tenants' stand against its development.

English
  • Originally Aired January 31, 1989
  • Network BBC Two
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