Who Cares

Who Cares listens to the voices of Liverpudlians being forcibly rehoused from inner city terraces to suburban high-rise estates. 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. To the people of Liverpool 8, the destruction of their housing is the destruction of the security of their social world. Shot on a borrowed camera, documentarian Nick Broomfield's first film captures the anguish of the displaced, and was used as evidence in a Royal Commission hearing on slum clearance and re-housing.