“This floor is the one with all the f---ing murderers,” one creator says, laughing.
South Melbourne’s Park Towers are infested with many critters: cockroaches, rats and, more recently, content creators, desperate to document the dirty and at times dangerous conditions in which some Melbourne families are forced to live.
Part of Spanian’s appeal is his raw, confronting depiction of street life, which he says is an attempt to document hoods before they’re destroyed by gentrification. But with a platform as large as his, it’s also a massive, missed opportunity to bring awareness to the systemic neglect these communities face. Perhaps worse than that, his videos are inspiring other content creators, often from privileged backgrounds who lack Spanian’s lived experience, to attempt their own “hood tours”.
I work at Park Towers, and I was appalled when I first saw the now-deleted video. The hardworking families, dedicated advocates and studious young people who bring this community to life failed to make the final cut of the video, while other residents were treated with callous disregard and observed as though they were animals in a zoo.
“There have been so many plumbing problems, parts of the building became almost unliveable,” one resident tells me. “The problem is exacerbated by the fact that there is one housing officer for the whole tower, who has a workload that would never be considered in commercial real estate.”
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