"This is Home" (Off/Page Project)
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- The Off/Page Project presents its latest short film, "This is Home," produced in conjunction with The Center for Investigative Reporting's new report on failures of Richmond, Calif.'s housing authority.
Off/Page recruited three Richmond poets -- Deandre Evans, William Hartfield-Peoples and Donte Clark -- to work with CIR reporter Amy Julia Harris in the Hacienda and Nevin Plaza housing projects, interviewing sources and walking through dilapidated, mold-infested buildings during her investigation. The poets also worked with drafts of CIR's research to inform their writing. Playing the roles of both documentarian and storyteller, the poets incorporated Harris' findings into their own investigation of the larger socioeconomic state of Richmond.
Note: The residents cited in the poem do not appear in the video.
To read the full investigation on Richmond housing, visit cironline.org/RichmondHousing.
The Off/Page Project is a collaboration between Youth Speaks and The Center for Investigative Reporting.
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Seems silly to me that this only has 4k views and "Best Fails of the Week" has over 4 Million views (and was posted only 2 days earlier). The world is too preoccupied with the wrong things.
Well said Aizuu...
Initially saw this on a PBS website. Read the poems first then watched the video. I am very impressed. It goes to show the ability to use words that are not vulgar/profane to get a thought across. Well done!
Thank you for making this video. I hits home.
That was awesome.
😂 I was shown this video in my English class its so funny
This home!
Cool project
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oh, man.
Dear MVScalper - You wrote "why don't they get some materials and paint the place [?]" Well, in part, as they point out in the video, the tenants who live at the Hacienda will do "anything to avoid eviction."
California law says that a tenant who makes unauthorized repairs to the landlord's property is committing "waste." One can be evicted for committing waste.
How would one get permission from a large Housing Authority (the landlord here) to carry out these repairs? These young men should, you assert, without permission or funds, "fix the broken pipes and renew the broken brickwork" at a dilapidated property owned by the Richmond Housing Authority.
Far better I would argue, that they should bring attention to the conditions and use their art and their outrage to seek change.
These men were trying to bring attention to the reality of the Hacienda project, which they did with this video. And the tenants of which are going to be moved out in a few months, thanks to this video and to work and tenant advocacy by tenants such as these young men and work by the Center for Investigative Reporting, and response from the government of the City of Richmond.
And at this point, February 2015, a year after the video, the FBI has just become involved in the on-going investigation of the former maintenance supervisor at this Housing Authority, Deborah Holter, and allegations against her regarding improper billing, diversion of resources, etc. So this video is just one glimpse at a large "can of worms" as it were. But yeah, blame the artists in the video and the tenants themselves for years of neglect that began before they were born, for which they are not morally nor legally responsible. Because that makes sense, doesn't it?
This is home, this is poverty...