At the end of 2012 BBC's documentary programme Panorama aired a special report on the impact the economic crisis was having on the housing sector in Britain, Britain's Hidden Housing Crisis. This is the way the programme introduced the documentary:
"Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis of a sort not seen before - where even the most unexpected people are finding themselves homeless. Every two and a half minutes someone in Britain is threatened with losing their home. This Panorama Special follows four stories over five months and reveals the devastating impact of being evicted from your own home and losing everything - from an investment banker now sleeping rough in a park in Croydon; to a businessman who lost his company in the recession; and a grandmother who gets cancer, has to stop working and then has her house repossessed"
You can read the transcript for the first ten minutes of the documentary here.
Britain's Hidden Housing Crisis from James Jones on Vimeo.
