Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Cathy Come Home at 60: many of the housing issues the film exposed still exist today

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par Jessica Field, Research Associate, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester

“You don’t care. You only pretend to care!” an exhausted, homeless Cathy shouts at a board of welfare officials just days before her children are taken from her. It’s a scene from Cathy Come Home, the 1966 BBC drama that remains – 60 years on – a touchstone for discussions on homelessness.

Written by Jeremy Sandford and directed by Ken Loach, the television play follows Cathy and her husband Reg, who are expecting a child when Reg loses his income through injury. The couple then lose their home, the first…

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