Advertisement Housing advocates have seized on plans to build offices and more than 600 residences in towers above and around the future Waterloo metro station to demand more social and affordable homes in Sydney's inner south. The NSW government's updated plans for the $900 million project, released in November, included high-rise accommodation for almost 500 students and a new office building, as the metro rail line being built under the central city triggers more intensive development throughout Redfern and Waterloo. The NSW government has released designs for the over-station development at Waterloo, which includes work spaces, private apartments, social and student housing. Shelter NSW said plans for fewer than 100 social and affordable homes would do little to ease housing stress, as the waiting list for social housing in NSW passes 51,000, including more than 4000 people on a "priority" list.