Towering failure

Back in 2011, A Rotten Shame became a defining documentary about the leaky-homes crisis. It built on nearly a decade of media coverage about the human and economic disaster brought on by an era of defective construction aft er building-industry deregulation in the early 90s, developer cost-cutting and poor design. The crisis, although still affecting thousands of people, doesn’t make headlines as it once did. But the tell-tale signs of buildings wrapped in scaffolding and plastic are a common sight in our biggest cities.

Now, the documentary A Living Hell: Apartment Disasters offers a worrying decade-later sequel to A Rotten Shame as it investigates how, even aft er the supposed regulatory remedies to the crisis, the country has hundreds of knackered apartment buildings.

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