New Hispanic scholarship created - Chicago

“When Hipolito “Paul” Roldan became the first executive director of the Hispanic Housing Development Corporation in 1976, there was no training or career path. Instead, in the wake of the fires that had burned Division Street, and armed only with the commitment to help a distressed Puerto Rican community, Roldan began to figure out how to replace the overcrowded slum housing of the neighborhood with decent affordable housing in which lives and families could thrive.

Thirty years later, with a deep concern about the future of community development in Latino neighborhoods, Roldan is establishing a scholarship fund to ensure that tomorrows’ leaders have the skills and knowledge to meet the needs of a burgeoning Hispanic population that extends throughout the metropolitan area”*

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