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Why We Live Where We Live

understanding housing choices
2005
Viewers will see that there are many reasons why people live where they live--family, economy, climate, age, work, personal style, and size and type of community. They will begin to understand how society and culture influence our choices and decisions about where we call home.

Habitat

1980

A simple, decent place to live

the building realization of Habitat for Humanity
1995

No more shacks!

the daring vision of Habitat for Humanity
1986

If I were a carpenter

twenty years of Habitat for Humanity
1996
Traces the history of Habitat for Humanity, an organization which has built nearly fifty thousand houses in partnership with low-income families, in forty-eight countries and twelve hundred communities in the United States in the past twenty years.

Secret City, U.S.A.

1990
Against all odds, Benno and his friends in the ghetto turn an abandoned house into a shelter for the homeless.

Homes

from caves to eco-pods
2011
An illustrated timeline of the development of homes that highlights the materials used in construction, houses as a means of protection, and the impact of wealth on where people reside.

An enemy at Green Knowe

1979
The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist.

Katie John

1960
Katie John and her family move into an inherited house in order to sell it, but find they don't want to part with it.

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