of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Yet elders and young people fear a lack of affordable homes has priced Indigenous residents out of the inner city and weakened the community's ties to their Redfern heartland."My mum still lives here in housing commission, but for me to get back into this area it's so difficult."
Robert Jackson moved to the Waterloo social housing estate four years ago, and said finding a home in the city's inner south as a retiree and pensioner had become "an impossible exercise".Pam Jackson, who is Inner Sydney Voice's Aboriginal liaison officer for the Waterloo estate, said residents had moved elsewhere in the city or to outer suburbs, but often returned for weekend sport.
"In the 1950s and 60s we had lots of families coming in and sharing housing because it was like a major city for our people," Mr Robinson said. "Now you don't see as many people around, none of our mob."
MeganGorrey What a shame getting rid of the trash at last won't work can't live on the Dole they need to go walk about back to the desert they won't survive most are white pretending to be black
MeganGorrey . Think of the cultural enrichment...
MeganGorrey . I recall Chinese property developers confidently assuring their prospective clients that the Aboriginal population would be cleared from Redfern. And it would be fit to live in. Multiculturalism
MeganGorrey Make way for foreign student 'cash cows'.
MeganGorrey ...specualtion; gentrification; desolation; isolation...