But if you can’t show them what that means, on a human level, you’ve missed your opportunity as a filmmaker.
I think documentaries, podcasts, books, any form of media, if done right can shed light on important issues that people might have otherwise not known. People know housing disparities exist, but when you force them to see it i think real change can happen.
When an appraiser lowballs the value of a home simply because a Black family owns it, you are effectively committing grand larceny. You are robbing people of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars. And it happens all the time.
If the size and quality and everything else about a home is the same as another home, but the only difference is that its in a black neighborhood feels way too close to redlining, which the fair housing act makes illegal
And in that same time, the size of the average single-family home went from 900 square feet to 2,700 square feet. So, fewer people were inhabiting far more space.
2 people to a 2,700 sq ft space. This has to mean people who are well off cuz if you can afford that much space with only two people contributing to rent. This obviously makes me curious about where people who cannot afford these spaces, where are they sleeping? and i think the answer is obvious. There sleeping in spaces that are way too crowded or are housless