The Villawood area is home to a large public housing estate constructed around the 1950s-1970s consisting of detached cottages, semi-detached townhouses, walk up apartments on Urana street, and formerly a Radburn design housing complex on the site of Thurina park, which became infamous for serious social issues, such as drugs and anti-social youth crime, even eventually breeding a gang called "the Bronx boys", dabbling in the drug trade and car-rebirthing before the eventual demolition of the complex in 1998.
