PHOTO: MONIQUE FORD / STUFF Three of the founding members of the Urban Habitat Collective, from left, Jesse Matthews, Hannah Schickedanz and Bronwen Newton inside the sheet metal workshop which stands on the site they plan to build their apartment block on.
A group of urbanites want to redefine the Kiwi-dream by creating a 20-dwelling community in central Wellington.
The Urban Habitat Collective secured a 913 square metre Adelaide Rd property earlier this month where they plan to build New Zealand’s first co-housing community based entirely in an apartment block. Co-housing is a concept in which private homes are built around shared spaces.
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