Farewell Oak Street
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This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park North; now they have access to new, modern housing developments designed to offer them privacy, light and space.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1953-06-15
Runtime: 17 mins
Director: Grant McLean
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Farewell Oak Street
Production Companies: ONF | NFB
Production Countries: Canada
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