Link to The ascents of money: 5- Safe as houses documentary
Documentary Description
It sounded so simple: give state-owned assets to the people. After all,
what better foundation for a property-owning democracy than a campaign
of privatisation encompassing housing? An economic theory says that
markets can’t function without mortgages, because it’s only by
borrowing against their assets that entrepreneurs can get their
businesses off the ground. But what if mortgages are bundled together
and sold off to the highest bidder?