Power of the People: City Life/ Vida Urbana

Power of the People: City Life/ Vida Urbana

My project is about the community organization of City Life/ Vida Urbana. They focus on the issue of foreclosures in Boston. Through weekly meetings, blockades, letters to the government and banks, and civil disobedience, they support families that can’t fight against foreclosure on their own. After personally attending a meeting and interviewing multiple members, I learn that the organization is much more than what it would seem like to someone who only judges the success of an organization through its statistics. Although City Life has helped prevent 100 of families from foreclosure, the organization is more than that. They have created a community within a community. I saw the members inspire and teach each other. The success of City Life is rooted in the passion of the members to make change.

Meg Casscells-Hamby