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 | | Out of the blue, on Thursday, 16th Nov 2006, public housing tenants at Edward St Lilyfield, received a hand-delivered letter advising them that their neighbourhood was to be redeveloped, and that they would have to move within a period of up to 2 years. |
 | | So unexpected was this announcement, that reputedly, neither Sandra Nori, the retiring State Member, nor the incumbent candidate, Verity Firth, who will be battling to retain the new seat of Balmain, were forewarned by their own party. |
 | | Some advocates of public housing, particularly those who don’t actually live in it, have a romanticist, sentimentalised need to see Public Housing estates as repositories of mythical "community" … meanwhile, the aspirational dormitory suburbs are empty by day as their inhabitants blithely jet around pursuing their interesting careers and lifestyles. |
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