<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>Exclusive:</span></strong><span> Police are being called to a single Adelaide housing trust complex up to seven times a day, according to new data that has fed-up housing trust tenants demanding action.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Officers have been summoned to the Kent Town complex, known as "Dr Kent's paddock", more than 1100 times between April 2022 and October 2025. On one particular day in March of this year, police were called seven times.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Helen Hayes has lived at the Kent Town housing trust block for over 30 years," and has witnessed numerous incidents, ranging from kidnappings to stabbings.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/interest-rates-reserve-bank-of-australia-november-decision/d70c56a3-161f-43ef-9e66-9286cdd459be"><strong><span>'Anything's possible': RBA delivers pre-Christmas message no one wants</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"My heart will be pounding until I get inside, get my roller door down and close the roller door," she said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"These continual incidents, one over the other, just really break you down."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The data also highlights issues beyond Kent Town, with police being called to a housing trust block on Carrington Street in the CBD approximately once a week. </span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/adelaide-housing-trust-estate-police-called/cb0b5fe2-a275-47c0-8e12-581905c0abae" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Residents there have reported feeling unsafe leaving their homes at night, citing regular noise disturbances and drunken behaviour. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Death threats – 'I'll murder you, I will kill you' – I hear that every week," one resident said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/skincare-products-pulled-from-shelves-over-banned-ingredient/09a8de53-14bc-4425-aefb-54ac1c8c0e92"><strong><span>Aussie skincare products pulled from shelves over banned ingredient</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Opposition housing spokesperson Michelle Lensink has called for CCTV to be installed at the housing blocks, and for offenders to be kicked out.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There people here who have taken this place, broken the rules, and yet they don't get evicted," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We want to work with tenants where we can, and where there's bad behaviour, we call it out," Housing Minister Nick Champion said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Obviously, we're just a landlord. We rely, like every other landlord, on the police to enforce law and order," he added.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>However, Hayes said she and other residents feel unsupported.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We very much feel invisible, nobody sees us," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>This article was produced with the assistance of </span></em><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/technology/9express/16480c33-636a-461f-9c4f-d0e2522c722a"><em><span>9ExPress</span></em></a><em><span>.</span></em></div></div>