The construction involved an exposed concrete frame filled in with walls of yellow, orange and red brick.  The complex incorporated blocks that varied from eight to thirteen storeys.  It also offered a shopping precinct and a primary school.  Neighbours were rehoused from their slum houses into adjacent flats in an attempt to preserve communities.  However, as with similar developments of that era, what started out well ended badly.  A combination of building flaws, that resulted in serious problems for residents, and increasingly lawlessness behaviour resulted in people moving out in large numbers and difficulty in finding people wanting to move in.  Apparently it became known as San Quentin.