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13-33 Louis Street, (“The Block”), Redfern. Sydney, New South Wales
13-33 Louis Street The Block Redfern Sydney New South Wales
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. Sydney, 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.
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