A DECENT HOME

When housing on the lowest rung of the American dream is being devoured by the wealthiest of the wealthy, whose dream are we serving? A Decent Home addresses urgent issues of class and economic (im)mobility through the lives of mobile home park residents who can’t afford housing anywhere else. They are fighting for their dreams -- and their lives -- as private equity firms and wealthy investors buy up parks, making sky-high returns on their investments while squeezing every last penny out of the mobile home owners who must pay rent for the land they live on.

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2021 / 90 mins
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Directed and Produced by Sara Terry

Produced by Alysa Nahmias and Sara Archambault

Co-Producer: Gretchen Landau
Edited by: Victoria Chalk
Consulting Editor: Kate Amend
Executive Producers: James Costa, Emily Deschanel, Kirby Dick, Tom Neff, Jonathan Logan

A Mobile Movies Production in association with AJNA Films

Supported by: The Ford Foundation, Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, Cal Humanities, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, MountainFilm, Rogovy Foundation, International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Grant, DOC NYC Only in New York, Film Independent Doc Lab

Watch footage from A Decent Home featured on HBO's Last Night with John Oliver

Awards and Festivals

DOC NYC
RiverRun Festival, Award winner
Big Sky Doc Film Festival, Opening Night
Denver Film Festival
Fargo Film Festival
Heartland Film Festival
Boston International Film Festival

 
Still image from the film, A decent home. Men and women walking, some with cameras, some smiling, in a suburban neighborhood.
Still image from the film, a Decent Home, of a wide shot of a black and yellow backhoe in action behind a chainlink fence and a bright red stop sign, against a light blue sky.
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