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PRIVATE FINANCE INITIATIVES: GLASGOW COUNCIL HOUSING:; INT Councillor Charlie Gordon (Leader, Glasgow City Council) interview SOT - we are the proud inheritors of a tradition of municipal socialist policies in housing where the public housing sector protected people who were being exploited, but now we've come to a situation where the municipal model is no longer viable George Square: EXT Housing protestors LA Crowd standing listening BV Crowd standing listening MS Men standing in crowd LMS Crowd applauding (Protestors = 15 secs) Janet Cameron (Campaign Against Housing Stock Transfer) interview SOT - this is going to turn us over to the money markets / we won't even have the slight protection that elected representatives gave us / we'll be bought & sold like sheep in a field LA Tower block of flats PAN Boarded up windows & doors Pile of junk outside building with boarded up windows Block of flats with peeling paint TILT UP to more decay (Dilapidated flats = 16 secs) INT Gordon interview SOT - tenants representatives would have at least a third of the seats on a board of the organisation at city level / at local level over thirty neighbourhoods would be involved as stakeholders EXT LA LS Block of flats (seen thru weeds in foreground) LA Balconies on side of block of flats Low rise block of flats next high rise block of flats LA Block of flats (Blocks of flats = 15 secs) INT Professor Mateus Beck (Glasgow Caledonian University) interview SOT - in Europe, the investors did repairs to improve the housing stock, but then realised that repairs weren't financially feasible, which led to subsidies from the public sector / a dishonest way to fund housing - welfare state thru the back door Windows on block of flats TILT DOWN Metal sheeting on window Blocks of flats Rooftops with blocks of flats in distan...