community-led development services

Urban Apostles was founded on a commitment to deliver alternative housing and creative workplaces for cities. Community-led Development offers a primary means to unlocking an equitable, inclusive and resilient future for our cities.

Community-led housing developments are intentional, as opposed to the more traditional approach of speculative housing, and include tenure models such as co-housing, cooperatives and community land trusts. Across North America, Europe and the U.K., these resident-driven models are disrupting traditional approaches to social, affordable and intermediate housing and providing a means for more equitable, sustainable and socially dynamic urban living.

Community-led housing developments are specifically designed to connect people through offering a rich diversity of common amenity, such as centralised laundry facilities, co-working and maker spaces, communal kitchens, wellness studios, gardens, play spaces for children, shared mobility solutions for cars and bike and spaces for local enterprises to operate from.

Urban Apostles are world-leading experts on community-led housing. With more than 22 years of experience in managing large scale, sustainable urban development projects across North America, Australia and New Zealand, we offers community-led housing resident groups with end-to-end development and project management advisory services covering the full life-cycle of projects including: