Many Aborigines in Redfern do not have much, but their children do have a long-running neighbourhood centre just around the corner from the Block, called the Settlement.
At least for now they do.
A ruckus has erupted over the centre's new direction, with a majority elected on to its management committee last year now accused of neglecting the Aboriginal people it has helped for much of its 80-year history, and the Independent Commission Against Corruption asked to investigate.
This week the centre sent tenants in some of its low-cost terraces eviction letters, then retracted them, while there are plans to shift the centre to a former Masonic hall on the other side of the Block.
The tired but treasured 30-year-old murals that used to cover the centre's walls were painted over during one recent weekend, in an unfortunately chosen off-white colour.
The row has become so heated that the Democrats senator Aden Ridgeway has referred some unspecified "accountability" concerns to the corruption watchdog.
"I believe all corporations and associations, including community organisations, need to be able to account for their actions," Senator Ridgeway said.
"On the face of it, there are some concerns raised with me which I believe should be investigated, which is why it was referred to ICAC for further investigation."
The federal Labor member for Sydney, Tanya Plibersek, said she had talked to many involved and would be very concerned about any decline in services or affordable housing in the area.
Now a group of the centre's membership, Friends of the Settlement, is seeking a special general meeting to dump the management committee and refocus the centre's activities on the needs of local Aborigines.
A man close to the centre, who asked not to be named, said the majority on the committee did not support the centre's four staff and instead were sympathetic to the redevelopment plans of Frank Sartor, the minister responsible for the new Redfern-Waterloo Authority.
The centre's former co-ordinator Michael Gravener, whose contract was not renewed by the committee, said the conflict had been building for a couple of years.
"The last two AGMs there's been how-to-vote cards placed around the room," he said. "They've got local neighbours who don't want the Settlement in their area."
He blamed the area's increasing gentrification for partly causing the conflict, and a lack of consultation about the murals and plans to move the centre for inflaming it.
The centre's chairman, Jason Keane, said he could not answer criticisms, citing possible loss of his director's liability coverage. He told the Herald he would like to answer the allegations to bring some balance to the debate but could not.
"I'm just hamstrung at the moment," he said.