'We'll see you after dark': how Melbourne police targeted African men in high-rises

Neighbours shooting up and cops on the beat: ‘For us, that was just part of living in public housing,’ says Nor Shanino, whose family are Eritrean refugees

This is the third in a six-part series on life inside Melbourne’s high-rise public housing. Read part two here.

In Flemington, young people gave each public housing building a nickname. Nor Shanino, who lived in the estates as a boy, and his friends called their building the Kingdom because the cool people lived there. Another was One Tweezy, an American rap term for 120, the building’s street number. And then there was Junkieville.

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