In 1968, some predominately Puerto Rican community activists stared down Boston’s urban renewal bulldozers and began a long organizing campaign to gain control over the development of their South End neighborhood,“ Parcel 19.” Forming Inquiliños Boricuas en Acción (IBA—“Puerto Rican Renters in Action”), they developed Villa Victoria, a 435-unit, 1,100-resident, affordable-housing community—a turning point in Boston’s history of affordable housing, civil rights and community organizing. Over three decades, IBA developed one of the nation’s most successful “new urbanism” community development models, integrating affordable housing with commercial space and support programs in education, arts, technology, and economic development, for everyone from pre-schoolers through seniors. Collaborating with many institutions and programs, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Emerson College, Junior Achievement, Boston Children’s Chorus (p. 19), Boston Center for the Arts (Cat’97), and Bunker Hill Community College, IBA has won local, state, regional and even national awards.This is a very savvy, sophisticated organization, close to the street with a Youth Advocate building individual and group relationships with high-risk teens, yet with a strategic perspective, represented on the Search Committee to select the Superintendant of Boston Public Schools.You can help these Latinos help themselves.