[1][2] The fourteen-minute film documents the poor living conditions experienced by slum housing tenants in the East London district of Stepney, combining narration with interviews of tenants.
It emphasises the role of the British Commercial Gas Association in providing social housing, interviewing residents of new housing projects about their improved conditions as well as displaying architectural models of housing estates planned by local authorities.
Ruby Grierson also worked as an uncredited assistant on the film, her first role in documentary filmmaking.
[1] One of the housing models depicted is of the planned Quarry Hill Estate in Leeds.
The film showcases the estate's innovative steel-frame architecture and open spaces, with amenities including a shopping centre and a welfare centre.