Built in 1936 by the Federal Public Works Administration (PWA) as one of 50 slum clearance and low income housing projects being constructed nationwide.
The Old Harbor Village was the first public housing development in New England and it remains one of the largest.
[1][2] It comprises more than 1,000 apartments in 22 three-story buildings and 152 row houses.
[3] The Project is best known for being the housing project where James "Whitey" Bulger grew up,[4] and a neighborhood "where court-ordered desegregation of schools through busing led to hostility and violence in the 1970s".
[6] In August 2017, the Boston Housing Authority announced a partnership with WinnCompanies[7] on a $1.6 billion redevelopment project that would replace the 1,016 subsidized apartments with 1,365 mixed-income units, adding middle-income/workforce housing and market-rate rental units and condominiums to the replacement subsidized units.