Film Series resumes December 4, 2024
December 4 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
WMAIA : Fall 2024 Film Series – Film followed by discussion
Films are free but you must register here to receive the Zoom link. WMAIA will record the learning units for each film and discussion attended. All films will be shown via Zoom.
Wednesday December 4 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU
Facing a Slumlord
Join us for an inspiring documentary by local filmmaker Dylan Landry. For years, low-income tenants in Hartford put up with persistent rodent problems, water leaks, mold, and even collapsed ceilings. Upon organizing into the No More Slumlords campaign, they discovered that what they thought were problems caused by a single landlord with bad intentions were actually the side effects of a lucrative business model through which wealthy landlords around the country exploit low-income renters—the vast majority of them Black and Brown—for profit. Facing a Slumlord traces the years-long fight by these tenant-activists to not only hold the slumlord who had exploited them accountable, but also to change the systems at the municipal, state, and federal level that had allowed for such exploitation. That fight started in the city of Hartford but reached all the way up to the federal government.