A Place to Live (1941 film)

1941 film by Irving Lerner

A Place to Live

Directed by| Irving Lerner

Production
company

Documentary Film Productions for the Philadelphia Housing Association

Release date

* 1941 (1941)

Country| United States
Language| English
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Living spaces

Main

* House: detached
* semi-detached
* terraced
* Apartment
* Bungalow
* Cottage
* Ecohouse
* Green home
* Housing project
* Human outpost
* I-house
* Ranch
* Tenement
* Condominium
* Mixed-use development (live-work)
* Hotel
* Hostel (travellers' hotel)
* Castle
* Public housing
* Squat
* Flophouse
* Shack
* Slum
* Shanty town
* Villa

Issues

* Affordability
* Affordability in the United States
* Executive housing
* Environmental:
* design
* planning
* racism
* Environmental security
* Eviction
* Fair housing
* Healthiness
* Homelessness
* Housing crisis
* Housing discrimination
* Housing stress
* Overpopulation
* Housing inequality
* Home ownership
* Luxury apartments
* Ownership equity
* Permit
* Rent
* Subprime lending
* Subsidized housing
* Sustainable:
* architecture
* development
* living
* Sustainable city
* Toxic hotspot
* Vagrancy

Society and politics

* Housing First
* Housing subsidy
* NIMBY
* Rapid Re-Housing
* Real estate appraisal
* Real estate bubble
* Real estate economics
* Real estate investing
* Redlining
* Rent regulation
* Right to housing
* Rent control
* Rent strike
* Tenants union
* YIMBY

Other

* Alternative lifestyle
* Assisted living
* Boomtown
* Cottage homes
* Eco-cities
* Ecovillage
* Foster care
* Green building
* Group home
* Halfway house
* Healthy community design
* Homeless shelter
* Hospital
* Local community
* Log house
* Natural building
* Nursing home
* Orphanage
* Prison
* Psychiatric hospital
* Residential care
* Residential treatment center
* Retirement community
* Retirement home
* Supportive housing
* Supported living

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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 aimed 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]

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

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

## References

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1. ^ "Housing Problems Shown in TCA Movie" (PDF). The Tech. April 3, 1942.
2. ^ Prelinger, Rick (2006). THE FIELD GUIDE TO SPONSORED FILMS (PDF). National Film Preservation Foundation. p. 75\. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-10.
3. ^ "A Place to Live," The Oscar Site
4. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

## External links

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* A Place to Live at IMDb
* The short film A Place to Live is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
* A Place to Live at The Travel Film Archive

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