A Place to Live (1941 film)

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]

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 • Human outpost • Tenement • Condominium • Mixed-use development (live-work) • Hotel • Hostel (travellers' hotel) • Castles • Public housing • Squat • Flophouse • Green home • Shack • Slum • Shanty town
Issues
Affordability • Executive housing • Environmental planning • Eviction • Fair housing • Healthiness • Homelessness • Housing discrimination • Housing inequality • Home ownership • Luxury apartments • Ownership equity • Rent • Subprime lending • Subsidized housing • Sustainable development • Vagrancy
Society and politics
Housing First • Housing subsidy • Rent control • Real estate economics • Redlining • Right to housing
Other
Assisted living • Cottage homes • Foster care • Group home • Halfway house • Homeless shelter • Hospital • Nursing home • Orphanage • Prison • Psychiatric hospital • Residential care • Retirement home • Residential treatment center • Retirement community • Supportive housing • Supported living

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. "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.


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