Push

All over the world, rents in cities are skyrocketing. Incomes are not keeping pace. Long-term tenants are being forced out of their homes. Even nurses, police officers, and firefighters can no longer afford to live in the cities where their services are needed. PUSH sheds light on a new type of anonymous landlord, our increasingly uninhabitable cities, and an escalating crisis that affects us all. This is no longer gentrification: apartments are capital and places to invest money.

The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to housing, as she travels the world to find out who is being pushed out of cities and why. “I think there's a huge difference between housing as a commodity and gold as a commodity. Gold is not a human right, housing is,” says Leilani.

The documentary by award-winning director Fredrik Gertten examines why we can no longer afford to live in our cities. Housing is a fundamental human right, a prerequisite for a safe and good life. But in cities around the world, the chances of finding affordable housing are becoming increasingly difficult. Who are the players and what are the factors that make housing one of the biggest problems of our time?