The Redfern-Eveleigh-Darlington or RED project was instigated by the state government of New South Wales to redevelop the run-down housing and railway yards in the suburbs of Redfern, Eveleigh and Darlington to the South-West of Sydney central business district to ease the pressure of Sydney's growing population by housing more people near the city centre. This has recently caused considerable controversy with the leaking of redevelopment plans to the press in December 2004 which included plans to expropriate Aboriginal land in the Block and Housing Commission stock in Redfern and neighbouring Waterloo for private development.