Vive La France — The Land Trusts, The Movements & The Housing Police

PUSHBACK Talks - A podcast by WG Film - Wednesdays

The Filmmaker and the Advocate are taken on a tour of exciting developments in France — community land trusts, new social housing and a newly minted housing Brigaid taking on Airbnb and landlords who don’t follow the law. Marc Uhry, one of France’s leading housing activists has moved from advocate to implementor of his own ideas, now as councillor and close adviser to the Mayor of the small city of Villeurbane. France officially recognized the right to housing in domestic law in 2007. ...