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Housing is the system. Our research helps prove it.
Housing is the system. Our research helps prove it.
At GWSAN, we don’t just collect data — we connect it to lived experience.
Our research is place-based, participatory, and unapologetically Western Sydney-focused.
We work alongside communities, academics, and advocates to uncover the structural forces driving housing stress, planning failure, and social inequality — and to push for solutions grounded in local truth, not inner-city assumptions.
Our Research Priorities
Our Research Priorities
Housing Affordability & Insecurity
We explore how tax policy, zoning rules, investor behaviour and planning systems impact different groups across the region — renters, first-home buyers, families, and essential workers.
Youth Housing & Early Intervention
Through initiatives like EmpowerHER and Youth Without Roofs, we investigate links between housing precarity, early parenthood, education dropout and system involvement.
Transport, Access & Infrastructure Inequity
We map walkability, access to services, bus stop quality, and planning gaps across high-growth corridors to show how infrastructure failure fuels social exclusion.
Apartment Quality, Strata Exploitation & Trust
We’re building evidence around the hidden risks of high-rise living in Western Sydney — from defects and insurance spirals to special levies and developer evasion.
Place, Belonging & Placemaking
We work with community leaders, artists, and local councils to understand how public space, street-level infrastructure and cultural connection contribute to dignity and housing stability.
Research Partnerships
Research Partnerships
We’re proud to be collaborating with universities, service organisations and local governments to co-design research that’s both rigorous and actionable.
Our current and emerging research collaborators include:
Universities and Registered Training Organisations
Local councils and community services
Lived experience researchers and peer-led storytelling contributors
Interested in collaborating or commissioning research with us?
Contact us or Submit a partnership enquiry
Partner With Us
Want to support or use our research?
Want to support or use our research?
Fund a community-led project
Share our data in your submission or policy paper
Partner with us on a grant or academic collaboration
Connect us with students, analysts or visual storytellers
Join the team
Join the team
GWSAN works across disciplines, sectors, and lived realities. We believe lasting change happens when community knowledge, academic insight, and policy influence are brought together with purpose and respect.
We collaborate with:
Community members and lived experience advocates, particularly young people, women, and culturally diverse residents who have firsthand knowledge of the barriers Western Sydney faces
Local councils and government agencies committed to planning reform, housing justice, and community wellbeing
Researchers and academic institutions working at the intersection of urban policy, health equity, and systems thinking
Community housing providers, health organisations, and frontline services who understand how policy failures show up in everyday lives
Urban planners, valuers, and infrastructure professionals who are ready to embed prevention and equity into how cities grow
Advocacy organisations and networks aligned with our values of justice, collaboration, and regional empowerment
Our approach is not to duplicate what others are doing, but to connect, amplify, and align. We look for partners who are ready to move beyond talk and help rewire the systems that shape housing, health, and opportunity in Greater Western Sydney.
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