Home buyer classes prepare residents to obtain mortgages which have usually been denied in the past.Īt a winter vigil in the park, a teenager encourages all teens to become involved with DSNI. Later, a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrates the completion of the first six of 300 new homes. DSNI also confronts the problem of drug dealing at the only park in the neighborhood.ĭespite a lack of local bank and developer investment, DSNI breaks ground on new housing in 1993. The Young Architects and Planners Project provides youth with basic architectural skills that they use in building models for two planned community centers. This segment depicts the broader social aspects of DSNI. In 1988, it becomes the first grassroots group in the country to have this power. The city adopts the plan as its official plan for the area.įor development purposes, DSNI asks the city for eminent domain authority over privately held vacant land in its area.
More than 200 residents create a comprehensive plan to revitalize their neighborhood. To create a sense of community power, DSNI's first campaign forces the city to clear vacant lots of appliances, rotting food and abandoned cars and to close two illegal garbage dumps. They create the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. In 1985, angered by a foundation-sponsored revitalization effort initiated without their participation, residents take charge of a community meeting. Some 1,300 vacant lots in the area become Boston's dumping ground.
This section traces the decline of the Dudley Street neighborhood in the 1960's and 1970's due to disinvestment and arson. They form DSNI, create a community plan, force the city to haul the trash, build new housing, and unite as a community. The story begins in 1985, when after years of mismanagement, decay, and neglect-after literally being dumped on with the city's trash-Dudley Street residents learn that local institutions are planning to revitalize their neighborhood with out their participation. In this one-hour public television documentary, residents and other participants tell how the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) turned a community around through grassroots organizing and planning.Dudley Street youth celebrate the completion of their "Unity Through Diversity" mural. In the aftermath of decades of disinvestment by government, banks, and industry, the residents of an ethnically diverse Boston neighborhood joined together to rebuild their community. "Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street" tells a story of hope and activism in the face of overwhelming obstacles. Below is a brief description of the video and the project.
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