Residents Terrified Of Their Neighbourhood Beg For Help

They forgot to mention the elderly people who are very vulnerable and placed next to unstable junkies.

Women and children need separate social housing. No one should live in fear

Good on that reporter for talking about her life growing up in public housing. She showed great sensitivity in her reporting. I grew up in public housing but it was a stand alone house in a mixed owner-occupier/housing commission neighbourhood. I had a great childhood with no problems. Fast forward now as a doctor I did outreach work into one of these towers and I was appalled by the unsafe and unsanitary conditions. It’s a dumping ground for people society would label as “undesirable”….it needs to change!

THANK YOU. This is a very accurate description of public housing blocks in Adelaide where I live. Its not exaggerated.

It’s definitely got a terrible reputation in South Melbourne. I feel so sorry for the women with their children living there escaping domestic abuse. Please help them

I used to clean one apartment in there on floor 10 I was always terrified whenever I got into the lift 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

That what you get for putting junkies and criminals in public housing.

Good on you Sarah! Thankyou for shining your light on this. 35 years and nothing has changed. People feeling so stuck and powerless. 💔

You have no idea what it’s like to be scared in our own home. My area has a government housing estate here and it’s terrifying not to mention what it is like to try and shop in our local CBD. We have a violence crisis in Melbourne.

The government don’t care!

I was an ambo in 90’s and through the 2000’s and we were sent there a lot and not only did our stretchers not fit in the lifts but I was sometimes scared sh**less and I’m not a soft man the place is horrible !

It needs to be easier to put the people who are abusive into Jail.

Sad sad world we live in

This is horrific that anyone is subjected to these horrid living conditions, let alone children. Our Government is making Australia a 3rd world country and allowing this hell.

Ide rather enjoy the freedom of homelessness than this

Absolutely horrible places. I lived in the Flemington high rise towers as a teenager in the early to late 80s and it was scary back then but it looks like there are now much more dangerous gangs due to Australia's need to import the worst of the worst from third word countries and stick them all together in a cesspool. I feel sorry for the genuine people who get stuck there

Is laughable: A country as big as Australia, resorts to building tower blocks. No, it wasn't done deliberately to screw up people's heads.

They should assign a part of that building where only single mums and their children are allowed in that area. Those with major issues should be in another area and so forth.

Government are not going to bother because the tower will be demolished

I thought that if people were known to behave like this they can be removed and refused further government housing. What happened to that?