"Cool Hotel Chaos" (Australia)
Gatwick Hotel's owners, twin sisters Rose Banks and Yvette Kelly, have sheltered for 20 years those who had nowhere to go: penniless people, drug addicts, prostitutes, ex-convicts. The Gatwick has been a gateway for many, and a house for decades for others. In the fast-gentrifying neighborhood of Saint-Kilda (Melbourne), the building became spoilsport. Its notorious reputation precipitated its fall. The sisters felt forced to sell the property. Channel 9 bought the building for its reality show The Block. The 1930s hotel had been split into luxurious apartments. story

















![Tiani, 31, from Queensland, prepares herself in one of the shared bathrooms to go out. She is staying with friends at the Gatwick. A complicated family story brought her to Melbourne. The Gatwick is her new "family", where she has "perhaps the youth that [she] never had". "Here, we can forget the outside world". December 2016.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bf772d_837d266fc348481fa2e334b32310992a~mv2_d_1900_1268_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_321,h_321,q_90/bf772d_837d266fc348481fa2e334b32310992a~mv2_d_1900_1268_s_2.jpg)





















