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Airds is a predominantly residential suburb of Sydney in the City of Campbelltown local government area in New South Wales Australia. Houses within the suburb are owned by Housing NSW. The land and houses are being sold off to a company and the area redeveloped to build private housing. Public Housing will only be about 30% of the area. History Governor Lachlan Macquarie named the region Airds, after the Scottish family estate of his wife Elizabeth. Airds appeared in land grant lists, and referred to almost the entire area between Glenfield and Gilead. The name fell into disuse as Campbelltown and other settlements along the valley floor came to be known by their individual names after the 1820s. In January 1975, tenders for the first homes in the Housing Commission’s “Kentlyn” subdivision were called but the name Airds was not approved until May 1976. Like many public housing estates in Sydney, Airds was constructed on American Radburn principles designed to separate traffic from pedestrians. As a result, houses in the suburb did not face roads, which was later found to create enormous problems relating to crime and passive surveillance in the suburb. It is one of the most socially disadvantaged suburbs of Sydney. In June 2023, the suburb boundary with Bradbury was amended, with Airds losing some area to Bradbury. In November 2024, there was another amendment to the boundary, with Airds gaining further areas from Bradbury and the suburb began to border Campbelltown along Jacka Street, Tubb Street and Cartwright Crescent. Demographics Airds Wikipedia