
The Bravos Defend Their Right to a Safe Home
Clip: Season 2024 Episode 5 | 2m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
The Bravo family in Brooklyn have been in a battle with their landlord for 15 years.
Fabian Bravo and his family in Sunset Park, Brooklyn have been defending their right to live in a space safe from mold, lead, flooding, freezing temperatures and they have been locked in a fierce battle against their landlord for 15 years. Through home video and archival footage, we follow the family’s decades-long fight.
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The Bravos Defend Their Right to a Safe Home
Clip: Season 2024 Episode 5 | 2m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Fabian Bravo and his family in Sunset Park, Brooklyn have been defending their right to live in a space safe from mold, lead, flooding, freezing temperatures and they have been locked in a fierce battle against their landlord for 15 years. Through home video and archival footage, we follow the family’s decades-long fight.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[Murmuring] Sunset park is different from the rest of New York, the streets are filled with music.
♪ You go into the store, they're either speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, or Spanish.
It's home to me.
[Speaking foreign language] Everyone knows everyone.
Most of my neighbors have seen me grow up since I was little.
Every time they see me, they're like, oh, you've grown so big.
[Television noises] [Singing in foreign language] I've lived in this building, my whole life.
My mom, she's a housekeeper.
She is very hard working.
My dad, he's very smart.
Maybe a little bit serious, but when he's not serious, he's, like, very funny.
[Laughing] We're very close with each other.
But, our landlord does not want us in the building.
[Gas hissing] [Speaking foreign language] Above the toilet, collapsed.
Go into the bathroom, wheres the roof?
[Speaking foreign language] It would be like days in a row sometimes, mostly during winter.
[Speaking foreign language] I guess for her it was like, you know, maybe this will make you move.
Extended Trailer | Slumlord Millionaire
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Preview: S2024 Ep5 | 2m 28s | Residents and nonprofit attorneys fight corrupt landlords for the fundamental human right to a home. (2m 28s)
Preview | Slumlord Millionaire
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Preview: S2024 Ep5 | 30s | Residents and nonprofit attorneys fight corrupt landlords for the fundamental human right to a home. (30s)
Residents in Manhattan’s Chinatown Fight for Their Homes
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Clip: S2024 Ep5 | 3m 16s | A group of residents in Manhattan’s Chinatown organize together to fight to stay in their homes. (3m 16s)
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