It got hits aplenty. Thousands and thousands. Melbourne's
Radical Cross Stitch blog got crazy traffic when last year they posted their guerilla antics in Footscray.
They had gone out in the middle of a very cold Melbourne night and stitched ‘I Wanna Live Here’ on the fence on the corner of Barkly St and Commercial Road.
They were cross and they wanted to make a comment about land going to waste at the whim of property developers when heaps of people have no where to live in our community.
As they put it,
"Owners reap huge rewards as the property market delivers the rewards that are always guaranteed when a resource is scarce. And we were asking ourselves when the politicians are gonna realise that something needs to change when land values always go up at a higher rate than wage increases? There is a big connection between land speculation and the 27000 people who sleep it rough every night in Australia."
Surprisingly - their stitchy intervention lasted almost a year. When they noticed it was gone, they went back for more.
On this same site you'll now see a number of hand stitched green woolly question marks. The questions?
"What the hell is going on? Why is this block still empty?
Why are there 11 other vacant sites around the primary school? Why does the State Government continue to believe the outright lies of the property industry that the housing crisis is driven by lack of land? Why do we still allow this waste of our most precious resource when there’s over 100,000 people every night in Australia with no place to live, let alone call home?"
Thanks Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle.