Apartment

[Fact 1]: Melbourne Mansions on Collins Street, Melbourne 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.

[Fact 2]: Many apartments are owned through Strata title.

[Fact 3]: A high-rise apartment building is commonly referred to as a Residential tower or Apartment tower in Australia.Apartment buildings in Australia are typically managed by a Body corporate or "owners corporation" in which owners pay a monthly fee to provide for common maintenance and help cover future repair.

[Fact 4]: He appeared in person before the Board to argue his case, and his argument was characteristic.

[Fact 5]: Even when the Board of Health at last compelled him to repair and clean up the worst of the old buildings, under threat of driving out the tenants and locking the doors behind them, the work was accomplished against the old man's angry protests.

[Fact 6]: The term condominium or condo is rarely used in Australia despite attempts by developers to market it.

[Fact 7]: Muckraker journalist Jacob Riis wrote in How the Other Half Lives:

The New York tough may be ready to kill where his London brother would do little more than scowl; yet, as a general thing he is less repulsively brutal in looks.

[Fact 8]: Until little more than a year ago its dark burrows harbored a colony of blind beggars, tenants of a blind landlord, old Daniel Murphy, whom every child in the ward knows, if he never heard of the President of the United States.

[Fact 9]: A few generations more in the slums, and all that will be changed.

Blind Man's Alley bear its name for a reason.