Editing Brownsville, Florida (section)

==History==
Brownsville was originally a settlement for [[White American|white]] families in the 1920s. [[African Americans|Black families]] began moving into the neighborhood between the late 1940s and early 1960s as the population surrounding nearby [[Liberty Square (Miami)|Liberty Square]] expanded and many inner-city whites moved to newly built [[suburb]]an subdivisions surrounding Miami [[city proper]] in [[Post–World War II economic expansion|the wake of World War II]].{{cn|date=March 2025}}

In 1945, two black couples who lived in Brownsville were arrested and jailed for allegedly mishandling their garbage disposal. That same year, members of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] burned crosses in lawns and marched against black home ownership in the area.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Connolly|first=N.D.B.|title=A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=2014|isbn=9780226115146|location=Chicago|page=133}}</ref>

By the mid-1960s, Brownsville was a thriving community for black professionals. However, the wake of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1968]] that outlawed [[restrictive covenants]], and riots in [[1968 Republican National Convention|1968]] and [[1980 Miami riots|1980]] brought about the [[black flight]] of middle and upper-class families from the community. Brownsville experienced continued population loss from 1970 until 2000, as part of a greater [[suburb]]anization trend among the U.S. upwardly-mobile [[middle class]]. Between 2000 and [[2010 US Census|2010]], Brownsville gained population for the first time in over 40 years, rising to 15,313 residents.<ref>[http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/21/v-fullstory/2277104/brownsville-residents-work-to.html Brownsville residents work to] ''Miami Herald'' {{dead link|date=May 2023}}</ref>

Construction began on a [[transit-oriented development]], "Brownsville Transit Village", in 2010, on the {{convert|5.8|acre|adj=on|1}} site of the [[Brownsville station|Brownsville]] [[Metrorail (Miami-Dade County)|Metrorail]] station parking lot. The project cost $100 million to build, and is composed of 467 units in five [[high-rise]] residential towers with ground-floor retail centered around the Brownsville Metro station. The project was partially funded by the [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009]], and is one of the largest transit-oriented and [[affordable housing]] projects in [[Miami]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.globest.com/news/1686_1686/miami/300426-1.html |title=GlobeSt.com - Brownsville Transit Village Set to Break Ground - Daily News Article |access-date=2011-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927182332/http://www.globest.com/news/1686_1686/miami/300426-1.html |archive-date=2011-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2010/06/21/daily14.html | title=Groundbreaking set for $100M Brownsville project | date=2010-06-22}}</ref>