A Place to Live (1941)
17m
Running Time
January 1, 1941Release Date
Plot.
Inner city squalor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the subject of this documentary, which focuses on a child returning from school to his home, a cramped and squalid apartment in a rat-infested slum neighborhood.
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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 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).The Academy Film Archive preserved A Place to Live in 2007.