Fired-Up! “Public Housing is My Home”

Fired-Up! “Public Housing is My Home”

59 minutes 1970 HD

  • Share

Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) introduces tenant management into Chicago Public Housing at Cabrini Green, Ida B Wells developments. Bertha Gilkey worked with tenets. Seen nationally on PBS.

img
  • Subtitle
    Subtitel HD
    • 1 - Subtitel - HD
      Watch HD
    • 2 - Subtitel - HD
      Watch HD
    • 3 - Subtitel - HD
      Watch HD
    • 4 - Subtitel - HD
This video option does not contain pop-up windows and the load is optimal, you can watch without cuts.
Activate your FREE Account!

Our movie and video library can only be streamed or downloaded by members only

Continue to watch for FREE ➞

It takes less then 1 minute to Sign Up, then you can enjoy Unlimited Movies & TV titles.

Similar Movies

  • 2025
    img

    Becoming a Rose

    Becoming a Rose

    0 2025 HD

    This Rose will forever be Chicago Red.

    img
  • 1976
    img

    Not So Much a Facelift…

    Not So Much a Facelift…

    0 1976 HD

    A short documentary exploring the UK’s 1970s approach to urban renewal through General Improvement Areas. Mixing location footage from...

    img
  • 1962
    img

    Vita di borgata

    Vita di borgata

    0 1962 HD

    img
  • 2017
    img

    Unarmed Verses

    Unarmed Verses

    10 2017 HD

    Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.

    img
  • 1970
    img

    Ghar Mein Shehar Hona

    Ghar Mein Shehar Hona

    0 1970 HD

    via print and film, love and music, state propaganda and people's archives, five-year plans and Emergency.

    img
  • 2007
    img

    Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story

    Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story

    0 2007 HD

    The real life story of the events surrounding the fight for and against public housing and racial integration in Yonkers, New York in the 1980s as...

    img
  • 2013
    img

    Dandara: Enquanto Morar for um Privilégio, Ocupar é um Direito

    Dandara: Enquanto Morar for um Privilégio, Ocupar é um Direito

    10 2013 HD

    img
  • 1984
    img

    Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster

    Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster

    6.6 1984 HD

    David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

    img
  • 1967
    img

    Cronache dell'eternità

    Cronache dell'eternità

    0 1967 HD

    img
  • 1941
    img

    Share the Care

    Share the Care

    0 1941 HD

    An anti-littering public service announcement from the Chicago Park District

    img
  • 2014
    img

    Chicago in the Spotlight: A Retrospective with the Cast and Crew

    Chicago in the Spotlight: A Retrospective with the Cast and Crew

    6 2014 HD

    Stars, director and producers of Chicago (2002) are interviewed about the film with a decade of hindsight.

    img
  • 2025
    img

    The House that Love Built

    The House that Love Built

    0 2025 HD

    In 1980s Brooklyn, a resilient family, evicted from public housing, refuses to succumb to homelessness or welfare. Instead, they construct their own...

    img
  • 1953
    img

    Farewell Oak Street

    Farewell Oak Street

    7 1953 HD

    This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they...

    img
  • 1970
    img

    The Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants

    The Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants

    0 1970 HD

    In an age before online commerce and Amazon, the catalog was king – and two Chicago mail order giants were responsible for making goods and...

    img
  • 2025
    img

    House Music: A Cultural Revolution

    House Music: A Cultural Revolution

    0 2025 HD

    House music is a genre that connects, uplifts, and unites people. It resonates globally and is prevalent on the world’s biggest music stages....

    img
  • 2012
    img

    The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

    The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

    6.7 2012 HD

    Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst...

    img
  • 2024
    img

    For Those That Lived There

    For Those That Lived There

    0 2024 HD

    Amidst the ivy-draped remnants of once-notorious public housing projects, FOR THOSE THAT LIVED THERE weaves a visual tapestry, navigating the...

    img
  • 2011
    img

    The Downtown Project

    The Downtown Project

    0 2011 HD

    Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to...

    img
  • 2024
    img

    When the West Side Burned

    When the West Side Burned

    0 2024 HD

    In the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, chaos erupted on Chicago’s West Side. Grief turned into anger as protests,...

    img
  • 1975
    img

    The Walls Come Tumbling Down

    The Walls Come Tumbling Down

    0 1975 HD

    A 1975 documentary short about a strike being conducted by public-housing residents in St. Louis.

    img