The environment of public housing is very bad. (photo by News Corp)
High-rise public housing in Sydney is now plagued with sex, guns and meth, according to Australian News Corporation.
(Kendall Towers), Kendal Building in (Redfern), Sydney, has 17 floors. Graffiti is all over the stairwell, where drug addicts inject or smoke meth, smell bad and trade in sex on the top floor.
Delma (Marie Delmar), 59, has lived here for nearly 40 years. She explained: "if people want money, they will wander around the stairwell; if they want sex, they will go there (on the top floor). They are all young children, which is quite sad. "
A 40-year-old drug dealer with schizophrenia once lived in Delma's opposite door, smeared with the words "there's meth here" and "roll away." Noisy music, knocking and quarrelling often interrupted Delma's sleep. One day, she got up to calm the other side, only to find a man standing by the door, with a gun in her pocket. Dalma dared not go out, and the neighbor later told her that the man was one of Sydney's biggest meth dealers.
After "ten years of hell", the drug dealers finally moved away. On the third floor, however, a drunken dealer moved in, and a similar situation continued.
A (NSW Department of Family and Community Services) spokesman for the New State Family and Community Service told Australian News Corporation that maintenance contractors were responsible for cleaning the building, including daily internal and external cleaning and maintenance of common areas, lawns and ground areas. The department also said that in the past two years, all-weather building security and front desk services had been set up, with keys to the building to restrict access.
Tenants at the Kendal building received "fine charts" showing how cleaners control the drug problem, but that doesn't seem to be enough. Recently, Delma will not return home after 4:30. "I have too much experience," she said. "people are trying to steal my wallet and someone is trying to get close to me. They swam and wander, just for money. " A similar situation exists in (Surry Hills) 's "suicide building", Northcott (Northcott), in Shali Mountain, and in high-rise public housing near Waterloo (Waterloo).
Jones (Charmaine Jones), head of the community group "Inner Sydney Voice (Inner Sydney Voice)", lives on the 12th floor of the NorthScott Building. "the essence of public housing is to live with people with complex problems, and you always have access to them because you share the same elevator with them. One of the problems with these public housing is drugs, "Jones said." the budget for cleaning is getting smaller and the demand for cleanliness is growing. "