Brewster Douglass housing projects

The first federally-funded housing projects for African-American families were built in Detroit in the 1930s. They were the Brewster-Douglass Housing…

Today on Stateside, we’re getting the inside scoop from former residents of the Brewster-Douglass housing projects about what it was like growing up in…

All this week on Stateside, we’re looking at the history of the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects in Detroit. If you’ve ever wondered about why they were…

The city of Detroit is looking for plans to re-develop the former Brewster-Wheeler recreation center.The center is best known as the place where Detroit…

To those of us who have seen those decaying buildings along I-375 near downtown Detroit, it’s pretty difficult to realize that the Brewster-Douglass…

Detroit’s historic Brewster-Douglass housing projects will finally come all the way down sometime this spring.The final stage of the ongoing demolition…