On , June 16, the Norman Lear documentary film, “A House Divided,” will be shown Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Living Arts College at 3000 Wakefield Crossing Drive.
The free event is hosted by the Chi Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Wake Forest-Rolesville Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and the Raleigh Fair Housing Hearing Board. A panel discussion featuring members of the Raleigh Fair Housing Board, attorneys and elected officials will take place after the screening.
The film is narrated by Lear, who explores the housing divide in New York City where he is confronted by one of the nation’s starkest images of inequality: a record number of homeless people living in the shadows of luxury skyscrapers filled with apartments purposely kept empty. He spoke with tenants, realtors, homeless people, housing activists, landlords and city officials, investigating the Big Apple’s affordability crisis, hedge fund speculation on residential housing and a legacy of racist discrimination that still persists today.
