By the early 1980s migration to Cabramatta declined, and as a result the migrant hostel and its many hundreds of small empty apartments lay prey to vandalism. Only the language school remained: it continued to teach English as a Second Language into the early 1990s, until the entire hostel site was demolished and redeveloped into residential housing. A walk through the hostel before its demolition would have revealed closed and boarded-up corrugated iron buildings once home to kitchens, washing facilities, administration and so forth. Drug activities began from the early 1990s (to late) as drug addicts and troublemakers were drawn to the area. However, since 2002, the problems have receded after an anti-drug crackdown was enforced by NSW State Parliament.