Charley - you're right about the low & medium density & cost housing in the Loo - Victoria St is in Potts Point, I was forgetting about the wider area & whole plan.

The Loo has a lot of Housing Commission homes, as well as Aboriginal Housing authority houses & the Talbot, and lots of rich folk, too who
own or are buying their own homes. Low cost acccomodation leads to poor people & people with various problems, and the presence of the Matthew Talbot, a large establishment run by the Catholic Church for homeless men, leads to even more transient people.

There are many folks who object to the behavior of some of their neighbours, whether in low-cost accommodation, or spending time in the parks & lanes of the area.

Some folks just write to newspapers, some try to help but one night recently a pack of rich hoons attacked a group of homeless men, doing some nasty injuries. They dressed in black Matrix coats (very theatrical!!), wore dark glasses & used clubs to show they were serious about this threat to their neighbourhood. They also contacted the press later saying they were professionals (of what I wondered) & defended their actions, blah blah - saying all the kinds of things low lives say to defend the indefensible. I wonder if they won converts to their way of thinking.

sandra