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.
A Place to Live was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)."A Place to Live," The Oscar Site
The Academy Film Archive preserved A Place to Live in 2007.
Further reading Bauman, John F. Public Housing, Race, and Renewal: Urban Planning in Philadelphia, 1920-1974. Temple University Press, 1987. .
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External links
A Place to Live at The Travel Film Archive