Building communities
By Chuck Grigsby and Joe Kriesberg | Boston Globe | May 20, 2009
BANK FAILURES and foreclosures, holes in neighborhoods where developments failed to go forward, and pervasive unemployment – sound familiar?The mess we’re in now mirrors much of what Boston and other cities in Massachusetts struggled through in the 1970s. We emerged from that period stronger, more united, and with some of the most vibrant and livable neighborhoods in the United States. Part of the answer for that period’s problems applies today: hard grassroots community work that turns a neighborhood around – one vacant lot, one abandoned house, one family, and one worker at a time, so that everyone can participate in the economic recovery to come.
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