Topic-+Housing

= Topic- Housing =

PROJECT QUESTION • How has the type of housing changed over time? SUB-QUESTIONS • Where were the local quarries situated? • Take a series of photos that portray the range of housing types in Richmond? • What building materials were used? • Describe the typical aspects of these homes ○ The rooms they had ○ What there plumbing was like ○ Access to parking, gardens, ○ What there backyards are like ○ In the 1900's it was common for families to have between five and ten children, consider what it was like to live in one of these houses with a family of this size • Compare the aspects outlined above with a house built in recent years. • On a map locate and identify the different housing areas - victorian/high rise/ converted factories/warehouse living • Identify factors over time that effected the changes in the type of houses in Richmond • Are there any special examples of mansions or well-to-do homes? Who lived there? • Are there any special examples of well preserved houses? • Identify the different architectural designs, what features are specific to each? • Where were the slums and what are these areas today?

INTRODUCTION With a large number of small homes in its narrow streets, Richmond has some of Melbourne's best examples of residential architecture from most periods. Many of the original houses are made from bluestone obtained from one of the local quarries. The working class population were also keen on the 'paired cottage- one to own, one to rent". Many fo the large companies purchased land because it was cheap and built terrace houses, then rented them out to their employees. The diverse suburb has been the subject of gentrification since the early 1990s and now contains an eclectic mix of expensively converted warehouse residences, public housing high-rise flats and Victorian-era terrace houses.  Between 1986 and 1996 the median house price in Richmond went from 93% of the median for metropolitan Melbourne to 136%. This remarkable change, however, contrasted with the fact that 60% of Richmond's children were in families on a welfare benefit or classed as working poor.  In 1996 a single storey terrace Victorian Terrace at 136 Coppin street, on land only 4.8metres wide sold for $ 148,000, the house was demolished and the land re-sold in 2004 for $270,000. A new bigger terrace house was built and then the two properties 136 and 138 Coppin sold in 2009 for $1,200,000. A far cry for a suburb once described as " a slum neighbourhood excelled in unsightliness by nothing else between here and Sydney"


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 * Interactive Walk through || A detailed explanation of the __housing__ around __Richmond__ || http://heritage.vic.gov.au/Heritage-places-objects/What-house-is-that/index.html ||
 * Map of heritage in Richmond || A good starting point and can aid in __getting__ pictures || [] ||
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