In 1968, a group of predominately Puerto Rican community activists stared down Boston's urban renewal bulldozers and ralliled to gain control over the development of their neighborhood. Forming Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA), these activists developed Villa Victoria, a 435-unit affordable housing community in the city's South End neighborhood. Since then, IBA has been at the cutting edge of community development and empowerment for low-income families and youth, by using arts, technology and educational programming to build a vibrant, sustainable and culturally-diverse affordable housing community. Its preschool educates 80 children; its Cacique Youth Learning Center, an after-school program, daily serves 40 youth; its home technology program offers high-speed Internet access to Villa Victoria residents, who can earn computers upon completion of an intensive technology-training course. Through a partnership with Bunker Hill Community College, IBA offers a college education program, called Pathway Technology Campus, that enrolled over 130 students in its first year. Pathway is now a nationally recognized and replicable model, with strong support from the U.S. Department of Education—one of only 46 funded programs from an original pool of over 1,000 applicants. IBA gives affordable housing communities a good name, and hope for the future. Keep that hope alive.