Losing Your Home

Oct 1, 2024

0h 19m

★ 8.0

Overview

Too many stories can tell the horrible consequences of the housing crisis. Those of Jeannette and Frances make us feel the difficult experience of eviction. During long months of anguish, brief hopes and uprooting, Jeannette and Frances struggle, alone and surrounded, against a phenomenon that is becoming more and more pronounced: losing your home.

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Documentary

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Cast

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Jeannette Chiasson

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Frances Foster

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Losing Your Home

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