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This series explores what it means to be housed — and to truly feel at home — in an age of ongoing displacement. In Los Angeles, often romanticized as a city of sunshine and celebrity, over 75,000 people are unhoused, the majority within the city proper. As officials struggle to implement lasting solutions, neighbors and tenant organizers fight to preserve communities made vibrant by longtime residents. This series celebrates their work and situates it within a global context, from South Central Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to Palestine, where home is under threat and the right to stay uncertain. Over four nights, the films examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory. While housing is essential to survival, it is the people, places and histories within those structures that turn a house into a home, a neighborhood into a community.
Series programmed and notes written by Associate Programmer Nicole Ucedo and Public Programmer Beandrea July.
Support for this series was provided by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
