Faile Street: The Human Cost of Foreclosure (2013)

This Earth Focus episode is a special presentation of Faile Street, a film by Elaisha Stokes and John Light, that looks at the human cost of apartment foreclosure in New York City. The apartment foreclosure crisis hurt millions of middle class Americans in the years after the Great Recession. But it also affected the urban real estate market. In New York City, apartment foreclosures left thousands of mostly lower-income renters living in buildings that were stuck in limbo between former owners, the foreclosing bank, and the auction block. These tenants found their home environment deteriorating around them, and their health in serious jeopardy. Faile Street follows four tenants living in the Bronx borough of New York -- and the housing advocates they turn to for help -- as they struggle to keep their homes livable and their families safe.