in other cities, apartment building was almost solely restricted to public housing. public housing in australia was common in the larger cities, particularly in melbourne (by the housing commission of victoria) where a huge number of hi-rise housing commission flats were built between the 1950s and 1970s by successive governments as part of an urban renewal program. areas affected included fitzroy, flemington, collingwood, carlton, richmond and prahran. similar projects were run in sydney's lower socio-economic areas like redfern.