Harry Hardy … lives in the Waterloo towers. Photo: Jon Reid
ON A clear day Harry Hardy can see from the Blue Mountains to Botany Bay from his 28th-floor apartment in the public housing estate in Waterloo.
But in his 10 years living in the estate known to many as the ‘’suicide towers”, the pensioner has to put up with a lot for his room with a view.
”We had something like four drug sellers in the building,” he said. ”Prostitutes used to come in the front door.”
In an attempt to overhaul the problems of security and alienation in the six grey towers, the state government will begin a pilot program, placing concierge desks, security gates, maintenance and new security services in each tower, all to be staffed by trained social housing tenants.
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