60 Days on the Estates
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202360 minEnded

60 Days on the Estates

Network:Channel 4

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S01E03 - "Episode 3"

Aired on Jun 11, 2023, 8:00 PM

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With more than one million households on England's social housing waiting list, according to Shelter England's social housing deficit campaign, filmmaker Ed Stafford moves into some of the UK's most troubled housing estates for 60 days and nights, to look beyond the tabloid headlines and experience first-hand the daily hardships that locals face.

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Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
60 min
Premiered
May 28, 2023
Ended
June 11, 2023
Schedule
Sunday at 9:00 PM

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Episodes (1 Season · 3 Episodes)

Episode 1

In this opening episode, Ed is in Northumberland Park, north London, where he meets a mum with three sets of twins under 11 who live in a one-bed council flat which has recurring damp. He also meets a 45-year-old resident who started smoking crack at 17 and now lives alone in a housing association flat.

May 28, 2023

60 min

Episode 2

In Birmingham, Ed moves in with a local in one of Ladywood's tower blocks and meets a mum-of-three who's claiming benefits and resorting to food banks to feed her family

Jun 4, 2023

60 min

Episode 3

On the Easterhouse estate in Glasgow, Ed meets the locals who've been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis and are facing the daily effects of high levels of drug use

Jun 11, 2023

60 min

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