The fictional Granite Flats residents of the early '60s are right to be afraid, because a lot of disruption is right around the corner: hippies, hard rock, black power, R-rated moviEartharth Day, soaring divorce rates, MTV, the global economy, cellphones, the Internet, "16 and Pregnant".
A shirtless council-flat resident flummoxed even the loquacious Mr Mellor by telling him: "I'm voting Referendum because you're a dead cert, David".One issue which will help the Tories in Putney is council tax.
They hope that one day it will enable keeping track of whether a flat's residents have taken a fall, perhaps even measuring multiple individuals' breathing patterns and heart rates.This, too, could in principle be done with Kinect-like cameras.
The properties are now on the books as one-bedroom flats, meaning residents will not see their housing benefit reduced.
The flats allow residents to live independently – each with a private living and dining space, bathroom and kitchen – and also take control of their own affairs.
Housepreneurs co-founder Viktoria Töws explains that unlike most shared flats where residents do their own thing, this experience is much more intense.
It picks up minutes after the first film, in the same block of Barcelona flats where residents have been infected with a particularly rabid strain of demonic possession.
Developers have been accused of socially divisive tactics, including providing only smaller units, such as one-bedroom flats, for residents who cannot afford the luxury homes.
A prominent east London housing activist has been arrested on suspicion of squatting following the occupation of a council flat whose resident of 20 years was evicted last month.
