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Lives in the sky

A six-part series on life inside Melbourne's high-rise public housing, commissioned by the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute

13 July 2020

  • Hamdi Ali, who lives in the 141 Nicholson Street flats in Carlton, Melbourne, says his 15-year-old daughter wants to be a doctor.

    'My daughter wants to be a doctor': young migrants in Melbourne's high-rises face a bright future

    Public housing is more than a safety net – it also integrates new arrivals into Australia and, over time, changes the country too

12 July 2020

  • The Collingwood public housing complex.

    'A lot of the kids are struggling': how Covid-19 has changed life in Melbourne's towers

    Even before they went into hard coronavirus lockdown, the pandemic had deepened a range of social ills in Melbourne’s high-rise flats

11 July 2020

  • Nor Shanino waits for a coffee on the streets of North Melbourne where he is currently a conduit between the government and African migrant communities.

    'You think that's racist?': the generational tension in Melbourne's high-rise migrant families

  • Flats in the Carlton Housing Estate.

    'We'll see you after dark': how Melbourne police targeted African men in high-rises

9 July 2020

  • Hiba Shanino is a resident of the Flemington housing commission complex.

    'We were all fish out of water': growing up in Melbourne's high-rise flats

    African Australians who spent their childhood in Melbourne’s public housing towers say it was like living with one big family

8 July 2020

  • People outside one of the towers

    'A completely different world': the rich and resilient communities inside Melbourne's towers

    The cramped conditions of the city’s public housing high-rises have an upside, according to those who live there
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