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Stoking up dreams : some aspects of post-war housing in the suburbs of Melbourne
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posted on 2017-08-14, 04:23 authored by Pamela Heath RehakOne of the most urgent problems facing the Australian
government and its people at the end of World War Two was the acute shortage of
good quality housing. It was estimated that there were more than 300,000
families throughout Australia in urgent need of accommodation in 1945; in
Victoria the figure was between 70,000 and 80,000 families. By the end of the
1950s the housing shortage had almost been eliminated and the standard of
housing, especially for lower income groups, had improved enormously. It is in
this period – to use Game and Pringle’s expression – that ‘a house, a spouse
and two sprogs’ in the suburbs becomes the widely accepted norm. This thesis
focuses on some of the social processes involved in this impressive
achievement.
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Marian AvelingYear of Award
1988Department, School or Centre
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Master of ArtsDegree Type
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