''A Place to Live'' is a 1941

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

directed by Irving Lerner and produced by the Philadelphia Housing Association, a nonprofit

affordable housing Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on af ...

advocacy group. The film was designed to call attention to inner city squalor in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

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 The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of m ...

preserved ''A Place to Live'' in 2007.

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