Past Programs
Urban Development and Planning - 2008
Margaret Gleeson
06/11/2008
Margaret Gleeson was born in 1945, and raised in the model 'garden suburb' of Daceyville. Daceyville was the first purpose-built public housing project in New South Wales, a roomy suburb complete with civic facilities, fair rents and priority to returned soldiers.
There was such an unusual air of security and stability in this largely Catholic working-class community that Margaret grew up feeling sorry for the poor folk who actually had to buy their own homes.
