Featured Video From the Archive: No Place Like Home

Here at Deep Dish TV, we find that some of our programming has been ahead of its time. In New York it seems that you hear the term "gentrified" or "gentrification" everyday, and used to describe almost ever neighborhood in the five boroughs. Our program "There's No Place Like Home" tackled the issues of gentrification, homelessness, and housing crisis back in 1986. Please take the time to check out this unique and startling program. You can view here:




http://www.archive.org/details/ddtv_4_theres_no_place_like_home

The following is a description of the show:
All kinds of people nationwide are suffering from the severe shortage of affordable housing. A unifying thread connecting the tapes in this show is that the producers allowed people to speak for themselves. Squatters in "Gentrification On the Lower East Side", neighborhood people forced out of their homes by General Motors in Poletown Lives!, and community organizers in "Take Back the Hill: The Rebirth of a Neighborhood" articulates their anger and frustration about the housing crisis.
Paper Tiger TV’s Fiona Boneham is a modern day Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, clicking her heels as a voice over reads apartment listings. She and others repeat that memorable phrase, “there’s no place like home” as Deep Dish TV investigates the housing crisis facing tenets and homeless alike.

Features the segments:
"Not the American Dream" by Tami Gold, Jersey City, NJ. Discusses the vacancy rate at the time, rent increases, and landlords controlling the housing market. Includes interview with William Kincaid Newman, former chair of the Housing Advisory Committee, for the Town of Montclair, NJ and many others.
"Gentrification on the Lower East Side" by Sachiko Hamada and Scott Sinkler. Interviews with people who are homeless, shows them building tents to try and protect themselves from the rain. "Room" by David Wald, New York City. Opens on Avenue C in New York City, a great video montage of how the neighborhood called "Alphabet City" looked during the 1980s. Shows people being forced out of their neighborhoods in favor of more expensive apartments. "Justiceville" by Gary Glaser, Hollywood, CA. Shows homelessness in California, asks for justice for the Americans living below the poverty line. Justiceville was created in an effort to unite and organize these Americans. "Homeless in Philadelphia" by Dirk Eitzen, Philadelphia, PA. Interviews with homeless people provide a back stories that show the difficulties the individual faces in overcoming homelessness. “St. Francis Residence” by Julie Keydel, New York City. Includes interviews with residents and staff at the St. Francis ResidJohn Luence. “We Are the City TV” by John Luvender, Jamaica Plain, MA. Curtis Davis and Andrew Jones, founders of Greater Roxbury Incorporation Project are interviewed about the town of Roxbury, and wanting to secede from the city of Boston. “Take Back the Hill: The Rebirth of a Neighborhood” by Kendall Hale, Roxbury, MA. Describes the fight to convert former hospital buildings into affordable housing. Despite work within the community to create the housing the hospital demolished the buildings to create a parking lot. “Poletown Lives!” by Information Factory, Detroit, MI. The story of Poletown, a neighborhood of 1,500 homes, that was set to be destroyed in order to make way for one of the world’s wealthiest corporations, General Motors. Poletown lost all of their appeals while organized arson and theft drove out many residents of Poletown. Residents watch the demolition crews tear down the neighborhood they have lived their entire lives in. “Mayor Bernard Sanders” by Nat Ayer, Burlington, VT. Sanders speaks about the housing problems facing the state of Vermont.