Demo begins on storied high-rises at Brewster-Douglass housing projects

Brewster-Douglass is considered the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people when it was built in the 1930s.

Brewster-Douglass is considered the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people when it was built in the 1930s.

The former red-brick community was the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people.