PHOTO: Host Scott Cam with the five teams on the first day of filming. Source: Supplied
WHAT happens now to the former residents of The Gatwick?
The camera crews have gone home and the former owners of the notorious boarding house — who sold the building to Channel 9’s The Block last year for $10 million — snapped up one of the renovated apartments for $2.77 million in Sunday night’s finale.
Sisters Yvette Kelly and Rose Banks ran The Gatwick for more than 30 years before finally caving to public pressure to sell the “drug infested hell hole”, the site of scores of serious crimes including rapes, drug dealing and assault.
Not everyone was happy. News the building had been bought by the reality home renovation show sparked protests earlier this year. Some questioned what would happen to the people being moved on.
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