Fitzroy, Victoria: Difference between revisions

As early as 1923, the [[City of Fitzroy]] was accused of 'creating slums' by allowing inappropriate development such as three houses on a 31-foot by 100-foot block.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2008139 |title=CREATING SLUMS. |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne |date=23 May 1923 |access-date=26 September 2013 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> By 1953, the state Housing Minister Thomas Hayes, said that ''Camp Pell'' in Royal Park, [[Parkville, Victoria]], which had been a temporary military camp for United States forces during the Second World War, 'might become a permanent emergency housing settlement' and 'Fitzroy slum dwellers who had refused offers of alternative accommodation by the housing Commission because they would have to pay higher rents would probably' be moved there.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23221542 |title=Camp may be "for keeps". |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne |date=10 January 1953 |access-date=26 September 2013 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Two years later the headline was 'Outcry Rages Over Fitzroy Slums', as the state government accused the Commonwealth of bringing in immigrants that the states had nowhere to house, arguing that the 'Awful, dilapidated buildings in Fitzroy, crowded beyond description with exploited New Australians were a grave danger to the health of the community.'<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71700780 |title=OUTCRY RAGES OVER THE FITZROY SLUMS. |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne |date=12 October 1955 |access-date=26 September 2013 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The Atherton Gardens high-rise public housing estate, on the corner of Brunswick and [[Gertrude Street, Melbourne|Gertrude Street]]s, is one of Melbourne's largest, built by the [[Housing Commission of Victoria]] as part of its controversial "[[slum clearance]]" [[urban renewal]] program in the 1960s.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} The commission was established by the ''Housing Act 1937'' in response to [[slum]] housing in [[Melbourne]], and operated under the ''Slum Reclamation and Housing Act 1938''.<ref>{{cite webbook

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