East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story

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Season 1
  • Network: PBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 24, 2020
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No score yet - based on 2 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Mar 24, 2020
    80
    Either a documentary about urban planning and the successes and failures of America's public housing initiatives is going to sound like your kind of escapist intellectualism (or intellectual escapism) or it won't. Those with even basic curiosity will find Sarah Burns and David McMahon's film a smart and substantive thing, worth watching and mulling over in its empathetic pragmatism.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Mar 24, 2020
    80
    The film marshals a fine roster of scholars and journalists to talk about the politics, and the sociology, of public housing. Its heart, though, is in the reminiscences of the former residents.