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Slumlord Millionaire | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer
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12/13/2024
This documentary exposes housing injustice in NYC, following the David-and-Goliath battles between ordinary renters and | dG1fZmQxbU44UlpwaFU
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00:00
So this is my neighborhood.
00:05
Generations have lived here.
00:07
Everyone knows everyone.
00:09
It's home to me.
00:12
Our landlord does not want us in the building.
00:15
New York City is driven by the real estate business.
00:19
The rental market's extremely fierce and extremely competitive.
00:22
The demand far outstrips supply.
00:24
With the property values going up, the sharks come out.
00:29
We've seen New York go from a working-class city to a playground for the elite.
00:33
They want to push out the community.
00:35
All of these luxury towers that billionaires are sitting on to grow their wealth.
00:40
There's a limited amount of housing, and the system has to get those homes from somewhere.
00:48
Above the toilet collapsed.
00:50
My little brother has asthma.
00:52
It was because of mold.
00:57
These are tactics that landlords use to push tenants out.
01:01
Maybe this will make you move.
01:03
You don't like this how much you move, out.
01:06
They can do some easy renovations and then rent it out for five times the amount.
01:11
When market rate is $5,000, anything you're going to build is going to be deemed luxury.
01:17
This was my building.
01:18
My home was taken away because of defraud.
01:21
Everything that I've gone through in life was impacted by growing up housing insecure.
01:26
The real estate industry is robbing people.
01:29
We're talking hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars.
01:32
Housing court has become an eviction mill.
01:34
This is a business to them.
01:36
They don't care if they're taking families' homes away.
01:38
People that you push here are the ones that you come up to when you need a babysitter,
01:43
when you want your laundry.
01:45
Who do you come to?
01:46
Us.
01:47
Hi, we're coming around with a petition to oppose the luxury towers.
01:51
Fight, fight, fight!
01:53
Who rules New York?
01:55
It's unconscionable that the government is paying these developers to destroy our communities.
02:01
Not only have these thieves stolen our homes, not only have they stolen our equity, they
02:07
have stolen our lives.
02:09
This city implements rent increases that make it nearly impossible to afford rent.
02:17
Raise your hand if you want rent rollback.
02:20
Let's go!
02:21
Rent rollback!
02:22
Rent rollback!
02:23
Rent rollback!
02:24
Rent rollback!
02:25
Rent rollback!
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