24 Salisbury Crescent, Fitzroy North

Numbers 26, 24 and 22. All classified as ‘good brick’. Builders inspection of No. 24- ‘a structurally sound, clean little house conforming in almost every respect to the Housing Commission requirements’. Owner had spent c. $2000 to renovate the house. Taken within the block Church Street-Rae Street- Nicholson Street. Targeted by Housing Commission, Victoria for broad scale demolition and construction of high rise apartment blocks. This was opposed by residents, both tenants and owners and factories. This campaign was a turning point in public housing policy and practice in Victoria. (Text from Yarra Libraries).

Image held by Fitzroy Library. Photo by Elinor Scrmbler, 1971
Image held by Fitzroy Library. Photo by Elinor Scrmbler, 1971

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