60 Days on the Estates

It's appalling to see the conditions that people are being forced to live in in the 21st century and you'd have to be callous not to feel for the people covered. They all need help but some also need to take responsibility for their situations and stop playing the victim .

Living in overcrowded situations and choosing to have another 4-children is a personal choice. Sadly, all that is represented in the film is "poor me, someone must help me". I wish that structures could be put in place to help people before they become desperate but this can only work if people take responsibility for their own actions.

Even more horrific is the casual criminality that has become normalised in these areas. I wonder if some affirmative actions could be arranged to repair the relationship between residents and the police so that the criminals could be identified and dealt with.

Finally, many of the buildings covered in these programmes were the post war replacement of slum areas. Has anyone investigated why slums seem to have been replaced with other slums? It would seem prudent to investigate this before replacing the housing again so that the replacement properties will be fit for purpose for the long term.