A silent Push.

Several cities in the world are the most developed, such as #Newyork , #London, #Barcelona, #Amsterdam, #Toronto, and even #Tokyo. These locations contributed to the development of affordable housing, such as St. Peter Apartments (LA, USA), KHT Homes (LP, UK), and Zabalgana Social Housing (BCN, Spain). Despite these countries standing firm on their democratic pillars worldwide, many sensitive issues remain hidden. Among them is the #housingcrisis in the United States of America, where people cannot afford to live in their fundamental human rights. A few scenarios are the Great Recession of 2008, the 2019 Crisis, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Such alarming situations can be elaborated transparently by one of the Global award-winning documentaries called ‘Push’. It is a non-fictional motion picture explaining the misuse of the public due to no specific rules of #affordablehousing in the court system.?The misuse of power raises three questions: how children and families ended up without a home; how political businesses pushed the people into #poverty; and how justice, equity, freedom, and representation for housing became unrecognizable for everyone.

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The documentary started with the scene of high-rise glazed skylines that were running throughout the cities. The beautiful bank boxes, new flats, and #condominiums were ruling in the sky, but the first floors of such structures were covered with ‘May 1 Rent Strike’ stickers. Those stickers might be pasted by a Harlem man in New York who was spending 90% of his income on a flat as the 2-bedroom apartments, increased with 3600USD rent, or a family man of Barcelona, who got forced to leave his building by the new #investors. The focus on such architectural destruction got active when Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, in Ottawa, Canada, started to worry about the startling graph of wage development and housing prices from the last two decades. Who were these faceless #political forces that turned architectural buildings from livable environments to empty shells? Why did #architecture shift from improving human existence to people from their own homes??All of these solutions were discovered by the same lady while roaming the world and attempting to identify the #monster responsible for such a wide difference between housing as a commodity and gold as a commodity. Leilani even stresses that while money is not a #fundamentalright, #shelter is.

Ample of meetings, discussions, and documentation on increasing poverty and #homelessness for working-class and lower-income people, a real estate company named #Blackstone came into the highlight. When a foreign company like that entered Sweden in 2014, a quick destruction of affordable architecture was seen when they became the biggest owner of low-income housing within four years. This explained that the real estate identities, bigger than the #GDP of a city, do not even need a permit to turn down any space for tinted-glazed #skyscrapers. By the end, a shift of 1 billion people to informal housing, or people dying in the fire of #GrenfellTower (UK) was nothing in front of their idea of?“financialization” of the housing market. The bold patterns in the documentary indicated the shift of architectural identities into financial games, but make us ponder what will happen when the whole #community points to the one responsible for such #global diseases.