Published: November 21, 2018
The eviction of boarding house residents to make way for renovations and TV ratings shows how individualism has triumphed egalitarianism
This week brought the news that “an alarming number” of former residents of Melbourne’s Gatwick Hotel are now in jail.
The residents had been evicted to make way for renovations conducted under the aegis of Channel Nine program The Block. One social worker told the ABC that at least 32 women who were removed from the building are either now in prison or have spent time there since being evicted.
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