Housing Analytics Lab

About us

The Housing Analytics Lab (HAL) is a state-of-the-art facility located in the Tech Central Innovation District, designed to incubate research, develop data products, and strengthen digital research capabilities across New South Wales. HAL brings together researchers, industry partners, government, not-for-profit organisations, and local communities to co-design and translate high-quality research into practical, data-driven tools, products, and services that address real-world challenges.

HAL serves as both a digital space for data sharing and analysis, and a physical space for events, cross-sector engagement, and showcasing data products and outcomes to help tackle urgent housing challenges.

For bookings and enquires, please email us at  housinganalyticslab@unsw.edu.au

We were honoured to have the NSW Premier, The Hon. Chris Minns MP, officially open our facility on 19 May 2025. We also extend our sincere thanks to The Hon. Rose Jackson MP - NSW Minister for Housing, Homelessness, Water, Mental Health and Youth and The Hon. Paul Scully MP - NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces for joining the Premier on a tour of the space and engaging with our showcase of ongoing digital capability development and innovative solutions.

Report on Digital Public Infrastructure for Housing

The HAL research team commissioned Fruitful Commissions to conduct a consultation project on opportunities for investments and innivations in digital public infrastructure (DPI) that can help improve Australia's housing affordability, delivery and productivity. The project follows on from the discussions of a Housing Analytics Roundtable hosted by the HAL team and project partners in November 2025.

The project involved consultations with 61 representatives of 44 local governments, 5 state government senior executives, 8 independent or international experts, 3 construction and housing industry representatives, and 2 Federal Government housing and policy experts. It aimed to:

• Identify well-evidenced options for how Federal investment in Local Government DPI could enable better housing (and other) policy responsiveness.
• Inform more consistent and interoperable investments in Local Council systems.
• Better leverage good DPI where it exists across the Local Council ecosystem.

The consultation report highlights challenges encountered by local governments in contributing to Australia's national housing initiatives, and suggests 12 possible DPI solutions that can help governments, researchers and industry to better observe, monitor, coordinate, plan and deliver national housing outcomes.