Green Valley’s social housing experiment still being fixed 60 years later

Green Valley was built under unusual circumstances 60 years ago. Walk through some parts of it today and you’ll be able to spot remnants of that bygone era.

The south-west suburb was developed by the NSW Housing Commission during the affordable housing crisis in the 1960, on farming land at the fringes of Sydney’s suburban sprawl.

People — especially large families living in cramped houses in the inner city — were moved there. Some were given houses and others were placed in large, brick complexes.

While the urban development boom has since swallowed the valley, parts of it, especially its social housing, still…