Housing Commission (NSW)
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The New South Wales (NSW) Housing Commission was the public housing agency created in 1942 to build and manage public housing in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was renamed in 1986 to the NSW Department of Housing under the Housing Act, 1986.
The commission was responsible for the provision of post-war housing in the 1940's and 1950's, often using cheap fibro materials due to shortages of other materials such as bricks. It was also responsible for slum clearance in the 1960's and the replacement of terraced housing in the Waterloo area with high rise public housing towers. In the 1970's, the now-discredited Radburn style of public housing was used, especially in the southwestern suburbs of Sydney.
'Housing Commission' remains the common colloquial term in NSW for public housing.
