Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
2:00PM (1 hr 22 mins) doc
dir. Giorgio Angelini
The United States’ postwar housing policy created the world’s largest middle class. It also set America on two divergent paths -- one of imagined wealth, propped up by speculation and endless booms-and-busts, and the other in systematically defunded, segregated communities, where “the American dream” feels hopelessly out of reach. 'Owned' is a fever dream vision into the dark history behind the US housing economy.