Who Cares uses the voices of Liverpudlians being re-housed from inner city terraces to suburban high-rise estate to explore the sense of social dislocation that the new housing estates produced.
Whereas Housing Problems (1935) identified urban terraces with dirt, poverty and unhappiness, Broomfield's Liverpudlians mourn the loss of community and closeness the terraces brought, and find themselves unhappy and isolated in their brand new homes.
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