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Documentary Exposes Gap Between Bay Area's Ideals and Reality in Housing

Shawna Chen, Axios San Francisco

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G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

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Keith Menconi, San Francisco Examiner

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Zac McCrary, Pro Politics with Zac McCrary

This is a beautiful film by every measure—lucid, useful, fair-minded, engrossing, and above all humane. Like all the truest statements of care, it's honest about San Francisco's growing pains even as it brings the magic of the place onto the screen.

— Nathan Heller, Staff Writer, The New Yorker

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

**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

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