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Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster
1984 · Film · documentary · 50 min
Directed by Adam Curtis
David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.
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The last time this came up, somebody posted this link to the 1984 Adam Curtis documentary, The Great British Housing Disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd7i5-baJAs
It's worth a watch, even over 30 years ago it was known that cladding posed a fire risk to high rise buildings in the UK, if you jump to 45 minutes in they are talking specifically about this.
All his documentary series are worth watching. These are
Hypernormalisation
Bitter Lake
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Every Day is like Sunday
The Power of Nightmares
The Century of the Self
The Trap
Pandora's Box
The Mayfair Set
Inside Story
Inquiry. The Great British Housing Disaster
The last one is particularly relevant after the Grenfell Tower Fire.