More and more city councils in The Netherlands decide to accommodate maladjusted people and asocial families in container on the side of town. These vandalism proof mobile housing units and prefab-apartments usually have two rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Forced transfer to these provisional neighbourhoods might be the only feasible way to get rid of people that do cannot adjust in society and continuously cause problems. The idea for container homes for asocial people comes from Kampen, a small city in east of The Netherlands that started with container homes 10 years ago.
A crew form the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa travels to the Netherlands and interview the container home coordinator from the Kampen municipality and one of the inhabitants of a container home is portrayed and interviewed. Dutch journalist and writer Jan Dronkers is interviewed about Asterdorp an emergency village, consisting of housing for inadmissible families, built in 1927 in the North of Amsterdam. And a coordinator from the complaints department extreme annoyance and a councilor from the Amsterdam North district are interviewed about container homes and about how to handle asocial people in society. Also the Amsterdam north district thinks about setting up container homes for asocial people.
For this background reportage Featurez gave advice, did the research, set-up and planning of the filming, booked a rental van and did the driving, accompanied the filming, did the interviews and translations.