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A Place to Live (1941 film)
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Wikipedia article
'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.
'A Place to Live' was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).[http://theoscarsite.com/pictures1941/place2live.htm "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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