‘Poor doors’: affordable housing tenants have to use back entrance to access Barangaroo apartments

The door to the Watermans Residences where affordable housing tenants enter; on the other side of the same building is a grand foyer entrance with a concierge for higher-paying residents. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

Affordable housing tenants on discounted rent in the Watermans Residences at Barangaroo are not permitted to use the swimming pool or the gym and are required to use a separate entrance from other residents, who pass through a grand glass foyer with a concierge desk.

Although they live in an enviable location just steps from the harbour and Crown casino, the restrictions are a daily reminder that the occupants of the 50 apartments designated affordable are not the same as those that occupy the other 162 units in the building known as One Sydney Harbour.