More than a decade after HOLDING GROUND was on public TV I ran into Jason Webb at a meeting in New Orleans. Jason was a young teenager when we filmed him declaring that he’d dedicated half his life to Boston’s Dudley Street community. Now he’s in his 30s and he’s the director of the neighborhood land trust. John Barros, who started the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative’s youth committee, is the director of DSNI. These organizations have been in the news lately because of their approach to the current housing crisis.

A foreclosure-free option

Nonprofits help stave off neighborhood crisis

For these reasons and many more we’re revisiting the Dudley Street story …