As the year comes to an end we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all the advances that we have made as a city, ranging from housing, to education, workforce development, and more. At IBA, we strive to provide affordable housing for our community, we consider it the foundation of the rest of our programs which all contribute to improve the quality of life of every individual. In our fight to e...
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Orgullo (pride) is a powerful thing. Orgullo can empower individuals to do great things in life. To feel orgullo, we need to believe first in ourselves and that is where the magic starts to happen. In the...
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Our CEO, Vanessa Calderon-Rosado was recently profiled in Banker and Tradesman, “the financial and real estate services weekly for Massachusetts.” She spoke about our affordable housing plans and shared some of the obstacles we are facing as well as the current state of gentrification in Boston’s South End. You can read all of it below. Vanessa Calderon-Rosado...
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Our CEO, Dr. Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, was recently ...
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Too many of us can relate to these scenarios: being in a classroom full of students and feeling completely lost, being in a meeting and not understanding what the next steps are, sitting in a seminar and assuming that everyone else knows the subject matter. All these situations have something in common: as people sometimes we cannot muster the courage to speak out, and not asking for the informati...
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For nearly five decades IBA has worked towards the advancement of our community. We started in 1968, during the urban renewal housing displacements. After battling for fair housing practices and the rights to develop our neighborhood, we developed Villa Victoria, an affordable housing community with 435 units in Boston’s South End. Since then we have empowered individuals through educatio...
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In some countries, as in Puerto Rico, the most anticipated day by children at Christmas time comes with the celebration of Three Kings' Day, also known as "Feast of the Epiphany". Children don’t typically receive presents from Baby Jesus or Santa during Christmas in these countries, but from the three Kings on the 6th of January, who tr...
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