Death of a Slum, at last - CT 4 April, 2008

Northbourne Flats….designed and built by professionals. Leap ahead to the year 2050 when someone will drive down the GDE and say “designed and built by professionals”. And on public housing .. here is a prediction for a big big money grab for Stanhope: ACT Housing owns the Ainslie Village site…you can see the lake from nearly anywhere on the site; it is a very short walk to the city and bounded(?)by parkland. Imagine apartment towers with views to the hills and and as far south as ya can look. Those acres are worth many millions. The contracts to run it and house the less fortunate are very short and all expire in less than a couple of years…mmmm?! Won’t put those folk out the street you say… remember Burnie Court and the question to boss of Housing about “where will they all go?” he answered: “We have thousands on the waiting list who are all living somewhere…” If they will do it the Fraser Court….

Headbonius said :

Interesting take on things spoonbill. But what would be wrong with treating the bad ones the way the roos were planned to be treated?

That cracked me up Headbonius …good call!

Interesting take on things spoonbill. But what would be wrong with treating the bad ones the way the roos were planned to be treated?

Time for all the 50’s and 60’s to go. The entrance to the city will look a lot tidiew when they are gone.

Yep, good to see the CT lightening up a bit. More of this, please, CT.

Skidbladnir said :

I find that caption to a man scoping one of residences while holding a crowbar to be the single most amusing thing I’ve seen in the CT for months.

Open house: News of the impending sale of Fraser Court appeared to get out early yesterday, with one man turning up for a private inspection.

Totally agree Skidbladnir, I chuckled over that for ages. Nicee to see the CT can have a joke occassionally.

Maybe the public housing tenants can be translocated interstate with the Belconnen roos.

Most of ours were built in the 60s too weren’t they?

And they have at least given up on building more.

and we are lucky that even Northbourne Flats are smaller than the british mostrosities, and the scary Fitzroy Flats in Melbourne – they are enormous.

But Sepi, they haven’t given up on it. Bega Court, Kanagra Court, Lyneham Flats, Northbourne Flats, Stuart Flats the list goes on. Ther is nothing wrong with the Govt getting rid of Fraser Court or any others for that matter. It does raise issues about financial cost though. Imagine giving the great unwashed their own homes. FO, I won’t be paying for that.. You missed my point. I was saying……WELL DER! to his comment designed to make himself look smart and stating what governments have known for ages.

Complex problem, always has been, always will be.

Well then you should be applauding the council guy for saying out loud that large groups of govvie housing don’t work. And the Stanhope govt for giving up on this ‘cheap housing ‘ policy.

And I dont’ think the Stanhope govt built Fraser court.