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The Rebuilding of Mascot Flats
| Length: | 59 min |
| Released: | 1992 |
| Ages: |
College Adult |
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This is a moving story about a group of homeless New Yorkers who set out to renovate an abandoned tenement building. Helped by Habitat for Humanity, including Jimmy Carter, inexperienced people become proficient carpenters and tenant-owners. This group of ethnically diverse people overcomes bureaucracy, skepticism and lack of money to attain a decent, affordable place to live. Filmed over a three-year period, it follows their struggle to turn a collective dream into a reality. Their saga can be a model for successful replicable restoration and community efforts.
"It's an irresistible underdog story about ordinary people refusing to be overwhelmed by the odds."
–LA Weekly
"Compelling and absorbing. . . essential to an intelligent public discourse on the problems facing American cities."
– Bill Ryan, Municipal Art Society, NYC
–LA Weekly
"Compelling and absorbing. . . essential to an intelligent public discourse on the problems facing American cities."
– Bill Ryan, Municipal Art Society, NYC
Silver Apple, National Educational Film & Video Festival, 1991
Silver Plaque, Chicago International Film Festival, 1991
Silver Plaque, Chicago International Film Festival, 1991
