The early days of the Brewster Projects in the 1930s were nice, clean and filled with poor black folks who left their run-down shacks in Black Bottom. When the gangs, drugs and street crime came into to projects. Poor black folks were put down and bullied. There were lack of security and maintenance. Community and Civil Rights leaders tried to talk to Detroit City Council and Mayor [[who were mostly white) at the time, but they response with false promises. Now as the Brewster Urban Prison Projects is gone it brings a sigh of relief. Now that area can be redeveloped to something yuppified or strengthen section 8 requirements in order bring people with hope instead of building containment boxes.
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