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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

The only waypeople could buy a home was through a practicecalled contract buying

The only way
people could buy a home was through a practice
called contract buying

Full Transcript

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The only way people could buy a home
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was through a practice called contract buying.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:29:26
Uploaded
Jun 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Kartemquin Films,Judith Helfand Productions

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Movie Summary

A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.
- White speculators bought homes, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:12
- White speculators bought homes,
- If I have you in a contract, and things go along - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:12
- If I have you in a contract, and things go along
I evict you, and then I can recontract - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
I evict you, and then I can recontract
- Most people had to work two or three jobs - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
- Most people had to work two or three jobs
Often they couldn't afford to maintain the houses, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:10
Often they couldn't afford to maintain the houses,
- So when the federal government made it illegal - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:10
- So when the federal government made it illegal
You have banks making a decision: - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
You have banks making a decision:
"We're not gonna give anyone a loan - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
"We're not gonna give anyone a loan
"We're gonna close these stores and move them," - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
"We're gonna close these stores and move them,&quo...
You don't have steelworkers in Englewood anymore. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
You don't have steelworkers in Englewood anymore.
You don't have people working - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
You don't have people working
It doesn't happen overnight, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:08
It doesn't happen overnight,
- Colean and Jeremiah Scott were not even born - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
- Colean and Jeremiah Scott were not even born
If my daughter was to go to school here, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
If my daughter was to go to school here,
- It's just, you don't really even... - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
- It's just, you don't really even...
Think about it - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:10
Think about it
It's just right in your face, you know? - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
It's just right in your face, you know?
And I was upset about those right there. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
And I was upset about those right there.
It's abandoned, forgot about, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
It's abandoned, forgot about,
We all know what it takes to make a healthy neighborhood. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
We all know what it takes to make a healthy neighborhood.