A Place to Live

A Place to Live is a 1941 documentary film directed by Irving Lerner and produced by the Philadelphia Housing Association, a nonprofit affordable housing advocacy group. The film was designed to call attention to inner city squalor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by focusing on a child's journey from school to his family's cramped and squalid apartment in a rat-infested slum neighborhood.[1][2]

For the 2018 Canadian film by Bernard Émond, see A Place to Live (2018 film).
A Place to Live
Directed byIrving Lerner
Production
company
Documentary Film Productions for the Philadelphia Housing Association
Release date
1941
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Part of a series on
Living spaces
Main
House (detached) • Apartment • Housing projects • Tenement • Condominium • Mixed-use development (live-work) • Hotel • Hostel (travellers' hotel) • Castles • Public housing • Squat • Flophouse • Green home • Shack • Slum • Shanty town
Issues
Affordability • Environmental planning • Fair housing • Healthiness • Homelessness • Housing discrimination • Home ownership • Ownership equity • Rent • Subprime lending • Subsidized housing • Sustainable development • Vagrancy
Society and politics
Housing subsidy • Rent control • Real estate economics • Redlining • Right to housing

A Place to Live was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).[3]

The Academy Film Archive preserved A Place to Live in 2007.[4]

Further reading
  • Bauman, John F. Public Housing, Race, and Renewal: Urban Planning in Philadelphia, 1920-1974. Temple University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-87722-444-7.

References
  1. The Tech, April 3, 1942
  2. The Sponsored Film Guide Archived 2008-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "A Place to Live," The Oscar Site
  4. "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.


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