Dreamers and Redeemers
Boston Globe | May 20, 2009

WHILE URBAN theorists were prattling on about the death of the American city in the 1970s, a group of Bostonians, led by former state representative Mel King, were doing something about it: fostering community development corporations. Today, these nonprofit creators of high-quality, low-cost housing and redeemers of blighted neighborhoods will name a training institute in honor of the 80-year-old King.

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