ADVANCED PRAISE
A beautifully filmed documentary that conveys the bafflement of housing politics in San Francisco—and of living with its consequences: a group of old timers grope for arguments to legitimize their NIMBY conviction and convert it into a lawsuit; a homeless dad tries to navigate the city’s affordable-housing bureaucracy; and political organizers battle over dueling ballot measures that sound the same but have very different implications for the city’s future.
— Chris Elmendorf, UC Davis Professor of Law
A film like Fault Lines can make a huge difference in building a political constituency that better understands the interrelationship between community politics and homelessness.
— Doug Shoemaker, President, Mercy Housing California
Fault Lines is about the Bay Area, but it carries a warning for every city in the country. If you want to understand the real forces driving the housing crisis, you need to watch this film.
— Gleam Davis, Former Mayor of Santa Monica
Fault Lines is the antidote to its toxic predecessors. It is the documentary I have been waiting for. It is the documentary that Americans need to see.
— Kevin Erdmann, Author of Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy