The lack of decent housing has become an overlooked everyday reality, where not only your salary but also your skin color determines whether a run-down hostel will become your lifelong home. However, a new political movement, euphorically elected to lead a city of half a million people with an ambitious political goal—to eradicate family homelessness—was not willing to accept this. It was the first in Eastern Europe to decide to implement the Housing First approach and help families stuck in a spiral of poverty and housing insecurity. However, the careful and sensitive preparatory phase soon encounters resistance from the conservative part of society, reinforced by the populist and antisocial rhetoric of traditional political parties. The chain of disputes escalates
into a dramatic social conflict, revealing not only a crisis of interpersonal solidarity and traditional social policy, but above all the international problem of the worsening situation of affordable housing.
This time-lapse documentary is a unique political ethnography of Czech political reality at the local level and one unsuccessful attempt to change it.

CZECH COMPETITION AWARD
SPECIAL MENTION
Housing Against Everyone was awarded by Special Mention of Czech Competition on
The One World International Human Rights Film Festival 2021.
direction
Tomáš Hlaváček
story by
Tomáš Hlaváček
Petra Hlavačková
script editor
Petra Hlaváčková
Vít Janeček
Zuzana Piussi
photography
Tomáš Hlaváček
Petra Hlaváčková
montage
Tomáš Hlaváček
Varvara Šatunova
music
Andrej Nechaj
Simo Hakalisto
Martin Bukáček
sound
Jan Úlehlav
production
Vít Janeček – D1film
Tomáš Hlaváček
– GUERILLA.film
VIRUSfilm
poster
Andreas Töpfer
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A2 – Když jsou byty i pro chudé / Pavel Chodec
ČRo Wave – Bydlení je podle ústavy lidské právo
Deník Referendum – Bydlet díky všem / Petr Kubala
25fps – REFLEXE: Bydlet proti všem / Iveta Zdařilová
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