NSW public housing official allegedly told woman she would get a home faster if she had sex with him

Exclusive: woman says she was ‘desperate’ to find a home for her and her child and was ‘preyed’ on by the staffer Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Police are investigating a Homes New South Wales employee, who is alleged to have propositioned a woman on the waitlist for public housing, claiming that if she had sex with him he would arrange for her and her child to get into a home faster. The woman, who is a survivor of domestic violence and had fled in order to escape her ex-partner, said the man sent her explicit text messages from his work phone and picked her up to take her for sexual encounters in his work car. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email