"One hundred and ninety minutes of people standing on their front lawn talking about their neighborhood might seem a bit much even for the most civic-minded. But despite its length and sprawling ambitions, Jon Schwartz's oral epic exerts a fascination that is both amiable and eerie. The neighborhood in question is Houston's Riverside, a residential area that in its 60-year history has been a microcosm of urban change in America. Originally an attractive upper middle class area marked by an idyllic ethnic heterogeneity, it brushed against integration in the '50s, nearly succumbed to white flight in the '60s, and has since become the elegant home of Houston's richest and most prominent Blacks. Though the complexion of the residents interviewed alters, the values of family and community remain the same...By the end of the film the anxieties murmured by current Black residents about whites moving in chillingly echo those of the original white dwellers about the first Blacks. Schwartz is an idealistic filmmaker: he believes that cinema is not meant to merely sway or entertain but to discover the truth. In This Is Our Home, his patience and persistence (and the viewer's) are rewarded. From the genial buzz of voices and faces one recognizes...the unfolding pattern of history itself." -Peter Keogh, Chicago Reader