Posts Tagged ‘redfern’

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Terrace Houses: 13-33 Louis Street, ("The Block"), Redfern. Sydney, NSW

Gentrification of terraces has come so far in Australia that it is sometimes easy to forget that just a couple of decades ago most were the forgotten and neglected homes of the working classes. However this is still very much true in pockets of Sydney and to a lesser extent Melbourne where terraces remain low cost rentals bordering on ghettos and slums. Here is a notorious such one known as the “Louis Street row”.

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87 Pitt Street Redfern, New South Wales.

The three storey terrace at 87 Pitt Street (with what appears to be a small fourth storey attic later added) is right in the centre of an eastern Redfern area which is being increasingly gentrified.  Pitt Street features a long row of two storey terraces culminating in this end terrace at the corner of Redfern Street.  Read more... (210 words, 7 images, estimated 50 secs reading time)