Walking along Alexandras Avenue, one of the main arteries in central Athens, it is hard to miss the Prosfygika housing complex.
The low-rise buildings with their peeling ochre walls, the small balconies dotted with colourful curtains, and the large hand-painted black banners unfurled across the facades create a stark visual contrast with the two vast, austere government buildings of glass and steel that rise on either side of the rows of flats: the Court of Appeal to the left, and the Attica Police Directorate headquarters to the right.