Birmingham | Season 2 Episode 6 | Full Episode | Grand Designs UK
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2022
- Kevin McCloud checks out an innovative housing scheme in Birmingham that allows people to build homes for themselves. The group of 11 men and women will build, not just their own property, but each other's homes as well.
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I had forgotten about this scheme! Very well put together closing shot - kudos to the Cameraman and Director. 6 years after this, Kevin set up his own company doing an almost identical scheme across the country: he called the company HAB and works with local HA's to donate lots of land where people take part in the building of their house! Its a large company with many schemes across the UK these days.
Hope these pioneers had a good life in their new houses and are still there, happy or indeed, moved on and upwards perhaps! Be fascinating to see them now, 25 years later!
One of my favorite episodes of Grand Designs over the years, So empowering. Really felt it in my heart with the interviews at the end!
They worked so hard together as a team, I hope the relationships stood the test of time and that they are still good friends and neighbours. What a great story
23 years and I wonder where they are now? Great way to learn a trade.
What they learn by doing this will have a greater value than the monetary value of the finished houses. Add the self-confidence they will have acquired and they will have that the rest of their lives.
Would love to see how they are all getting on now. Such great will power and perseverence, so glad they all got there in the end.
Fantastic project! Thank you Kevin, that must be an example of citizen relationship development for all societies...
Would love to see an update on the families. How are they? Did they take out mortgage and own outright? They really persevered.
What a likable group, of people 👏
Lovely people. Amazing work, I hope they're all happy.
I don't understand the system. In America, with Habitat for Humanity, people have to a certain number of hours on other houses before they get to work with others on the house that will be theirs. That sounds similar, but with Habitat for Humanity the person gets 100% ownership at the end. These people are working on houses valued at 70K for 2+ years, and they end up with 10%. So 7K worth of a house after 2+ years?
it's 25% not 10% according the the video? But I haven't watched to the end. Also 25% of an asset that should appreciate so it will grow in value.
Kevin keeps overtalking Carol when she tries to tell her decorating. Give her space
I can appreciate some aspects of this project both for how it sets up poor people to “fail” and also how it gives them an opportunity to learn and work together even if it’s essentially patronizing. These people have to try to do it all AND try and do something while depending on whether others care as much as they do. Anyone who has ever done a group project knows how futile your own efforts can be. Feels like a knock on effect of thatchers England…
21:25 :D bless him :)
Great idea, but I think they needed to have a little building experience, to really understand what it's all about.
I was on the site
anyone know what song is played at 25:03?!
No CC on, why cant it be english generated subtitle? #youtube
Motivation? Low motivation? Maybe, if they were facing the likelihood of sleeping on the street they would become energized. My widowed mother with 5 kids worked on our own house. Four of us cut and installed 4 x 8 foot panels of gypsum board to the walls and ceilings, did the taping, painting, etc.
They were working at jobs AND had small children to take care of. There are only so many hours in the day.
@@andreaandrea6716 How well we know. I could write a book about how hard my mom worked.
@@nemo227 Mothers are the heroes of the world.
... And Fathers are necessary (sometimes they don't know or feel that).
@@andreaandrea6716 My mother was a living saint. She made it to 84 years old. I'm 84 and the 2nd son and two younger sisters (70 and 82) are still above ground but the older brother and youngest brother are gone. We all on the same journey with some journeys ending sooner and some later. We're just temporary residents trying to do our best.
@@nemo227 My Mother left the planet at 84 also! She was the kindest and wisest and most Spiritual person I've ever known and not judgemental... she always tried to understand why people did whatever they did. I was difficult for her, I think (I'm difficult for me!), and she was a brilliant parent (single mother of me and an older sister). But I did look after her (Alzheimer's) for 7 years at the end. I'm 66 now. Yes... we are just temporary residents trying to do our best! I feel I learnt so much from both my parents and I am infinitely grateful.
I love this show. I wish they would go back and interview the people who built these houses. That would make a marvelous episode.... to find out how their lives unfolded.
👍😎
who live in the first builted houses??.. their are finished..
I know this is meant to be inspiring and all, but I can't help but cringe hard at the implied paternalistic sneering at these working class people. The fact that they've had to put in so much hard labor-- above and beyond all their other jobs and personal work-- and then be shouted at for not working hard enough on a build site where they will inevitably only own a tiny percent of their work. It shows how people who put together programs to help people out of poverty end up requiring more of those people than anyone else. It's gross.
I was struggling with that too. It seems like a program where the participants are almost set up to fail. Although some of them were able to get new (presumably better) jobs because of the new skills that they learned. I'm on the fence about this program. I don't mean Grand Designs- I love that program.
@@mrtablesawful I agree; Grand Designs is great, and Kevin did a pretty good job with it, all things considered. But the housing program could have been a lot better.
Thank you for saying this, goodness!
Jobs and schooling of their own, many of them parents, even a single mother, and one person getting sick, yet they're constantly dressed down for not giving enough hours to something they should already be able to have: a good home.
The fact that, on top of that, they won't own "their properties" outright, is a cruelty.
Oh knock it off. There's nothing "paternalistic" about hard work. This is a voluntary program, and these people volunteered for it. You clearly missed the part about how all their lives were vastly improved, and how nine of them got off welfare and into solid jobs, as a direct result of the time they spent on this project. What's "paternalistic" is your soft bigotry of low expectations. You wouldn't have had any problem if this was a group of middle class people who set out to build their own homes by themselves, but, because these are "poor" people, it's oppressive to hold them to the expectation of working hard to earn what they have. People like you who think that the only way to handle poverty is to hand out free stuff are part of the problem.
I couldn't disagree with you more. Who's shouting at these people. No one! Falling behind schedule is noting a fact, I saw noone being condescending. Learning trades is sometimes a challenge, achieving a challenging goal is rewarding.
Please read about Walter Segal and his self build movement. Listen to the owners of the Segal movement and witness the pride they have in building (and designing) their own homes. It's beautiful 🌻
This is not really grand design though?
A Grand Design does not have to be an oligarch's monument to self glory - here diverse individuals have taken an opportunity to not only building homes, but also built their skills, a sense of community & a belief that they can succeed. That is surely one of the Grandest of Designs!
It’s grand to them
@@lionelbrink an oligarchs monument to self glory? Nice strawman. This show shouldnt be about ordinary houses, as in this episode.