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And Numbers We Will Bring

Short film.

Storytelling by Joey Simons and Lou Fox McLoughlan in collaboration with Living Rent.

What happens when a global housing crisis collides with a belief that “home” is a fundamental human right? How does that belief in everyone’s right to a safe, affordable home swell out into an unstoppable tide? When – and how – can individual helplessness start to feel and behave like Power? 

This film follows Living Rent, a growing group of tenants and community organisers in Scotland determined to end the misery and isolation caused by profiteering landlords, and a housing system that treats people’s homes as an investment. Their idea is simple: to build a union of tenants that brings people across Scotland together to fight for tenants’ rights, repairs, affordable rents and social housing through grassroots community power.  

What happens when those same people dare to aim higher? When their access to government and sheer weight of numbers suggest they may be the social force needed to re-invent housing for the 21st century in Scotland? 

AND NUMBERS WE SHALL BRING is an intimate glimpse into Living Rent, and the hopes, dreams and challenges of its members as it works to transform a broken housing system into the homes we so desperately need.

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Engage with this short film, And Numbers We Will Bring, which showcases what #HelpsAndHinders social action for the tenant’s union @living_rent.

Storytelling by Joey Simons and Lou Fox McLoughlan. In partnership with Social Action Inquiry Scotland @social_action_scotland

https://socialaction.scot/and-numbers-we-will-bring/

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Poor living conditions are exhausting, hindering people from being able to take action. This also hinders the social action of the tenant’s union @living_rent.

Find out more about what #HelpsAndHinders social action for Living Rent in the short film And Numbers We Will Bring.

Storytelling by Joey Simons and Lou Fox McLoughlan. In partnership with Social Action Inquiry Scotland @social_action_scotland

https://socialaction.scot/and-numbers-we-will-bring/

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Solidarity and working as a collective helps the social action of @living_rent.

Find out more about what #HelpsAndHinders social action for the tenant’s union Living Rent in the short film And Number We Will Bring.

Storytelling by Joey Simons and Lou Fox McLoughlan. In partnership with Social Action Inquiry Scotland @social_action_scotland

https://socialaction.scot/and-numbers-we-will-bring/

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The short film, And Numbers We Will Bring showcases what #HelpsAndHinders social action for the tenant’s union @Living_Rent
 
Storytelling by Joey Simons and Lou Fox McLoughlan. In partnership with @Soc_Act_Scot
 
https://socialaction.scot/and-numbers-we-will-bring/

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Poor housing conditions are exhausting! Hindering tenants & @Living_Rent to fight for change.
 
Find out what #HelpsAndHinders social action for the Roma community.
 
Storytelling by Joey Simons and Lou Fox McLoughlan. In partnership with @Soc_Act_Scot
 
https://socialaction.scot/and-numbers-we-will-bring/

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Solidarity and working as a collective helps the social action of @Living_Rent
 
Find out what #HelpsAndHinders social action for the Roma community.
 
Storytelling by Joey Simons and Lou Fox McLoughlan. In partnership with @Soc_Act_Scot
 
https://socialaction.scot/and-numbers-we-will-bring/

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