Story of movie 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.
| A Place to Live | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Irving Lerner |
Release date | 1941 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Place to Live was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).
The Academy Film Archive preserved A Place to Live in 2007.
- Bauman, John F. Public Housing, Race, and Renewal: Urban Planning in Philadelphia, 1920-1974. Temple University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-87722-444-7.
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