The 1900s

• Sydney Harbour Trust and The Rocks Resumption Board, set up by the Government to improve living conditions following an outbreak of the Plague at Millers Point
• 1901 the Sydney Harbour Trust has a portfolio of over 800 properties rented at market rents, and became perhaps the first government housing authority in NSW
• 1906 the NSW Government adopted the Local Government Act enforcing reasonable building and health standards in the construction of housing.
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last modified: Tuesday, 23 October 2007