WHO CARES

As we hear them describe how the moves have affected them negatively, we see the old terraces being demolished, boarded up houses, and vans taking people’s possessions to the new estates. The faceless ‘Corporation’ of Liverpool (the local authority) has deemed that they must move, and few get any choice where they move to.

Who Cares was made ‘with the help of’ Sir Arthur Elton, co-director (with Edgar Anstey) of Housing Problems (1935), which some 36 years earlier promoted the rehousing of working-class communities in large new estates.

Where Housing Problems identified urban terraces with dirt, poverty and unhappiness, Broomfield’s Liverpudlians mourn the loss of community and closeness the terraces brought, and find themselves unhappy and isolated in their brand new homes.