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From historic marker on the site of Brewster Homes. Between 1910 and 1940 Detroit, Michigan's African American population increased dramatically. In 1935, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt broke ground for the Brewster Homes, the nation’s first federally funded public housing development for African Americans. The homes opened in 1938 with 701 units.
Photographer Kevin Bauman has more than enough proof of Detroit's spiraling financial crisis: He has 100 pictures. Bauman's "100 Abandoned Houses" project documents the continued degradation of ...
12 Detroit Houses Demolished Accidentally, Including Couple's Newly Bought Home. AOL Real Estate Editors. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:45 PM.
Leslie Allen Williams was born on the 4th of July 1953 in Detroit, Michigan. [1] His mother neglected him from a young age, so he was sent to and raised by his grandparents. His first run in of the law was when he was 17 in 1970, when he was arrested for breaking into a home in his neighborhood. [ 3 ]
At first, the project consisted of him painting a series of houses on Detroit's Heidelberg Street with bright dots of many colors and attaching salvaged items to the houses. It was a constantly evolving work that transformed an inner-city neighborhood where people were afraid to walk, even in daytime, into one in which neighbors took pride and ...
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As a strikingly controversial project in 1941, Sojourner Truth Project set precedents for Detroit housing project policy through the next decade. Created by the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) and United States Housing Authority (USHA), the proposed 200 units would alleviate housing shortages caused by the wartime climate of World War II.
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