Boy walking in a poor neighborhood, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Sad, pensive boy walking in a poor neighborhood, children playing on messy street, documentary film, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1941. A Place to Live - 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.