Small, intentional buildings where like-minded people come together to rent or own — blending the best of co-housing models to change the culture of housing itself.
Housing in Canada offers two extremes: living entirely on your own, or fully supported institutional housing. Between them sits a vast gap — and millions of people who don't fit either mould.
A micro community is our answer: a small building — starting at just four to six homes — where residents share more than an address. They share a stage of life, a language, a circumstance, or a set of values. Some rent. Some own. Some hold co-op shares. The building flexes to fit the people, not the other way around.
It's not forced programming and it's not a big system. It's the natural, human experience of living near people who understand you — designed on purpose.
Each model already works somewhere in Canada. What's new is combining them — letting residents in the same micro community rent, own, or co-own according to their means and goals.
Residents own their unit within a shared building — building equity and long-term security while sharing common spaces and decisions, like a condominium with a conscience.
Residents hold shares in the whole, keeping costs at-or-below market forever. Democratic governance means the community decides together — and affordability can't be sold off.
Private bedrooms with generous shared kitchens, lounges, and workspaces. The lowest-cost entry point — ideal for young adults building independence with a built-in social circle.
Secure, affordable rental homes operated by a non-profit landlord that answers to a mission, not a margin — with tenancies designed for stability, not turnover.
Mix them under one roof and you get something Canada's housing market has never really offered: a choice of how to belong.
We start with the people falling through the gap today. Each micro community is shaped around its residents — not a generic floor plan with a target market attached.
The years after leaving home are the hardest housing years in Canada — priced out, unsupported, and often isolated. A micro community gives young adults a genuine launch pad: an affordable private space, neighbours in the same chapter of life, and informal mentorship from the wider community.
Parents: this is also for you — a way to secure a stable, connected home for your young adult.
Raising children alone shouldn't mean doing everything alone. When single mothers live as neighbours, the everyday load lightens: shared school runs, someone to watch the kids for an hour, adults to talk to at the end of the day.
Our founders are single mothers. This community is drawn from lived experience, not a spreadsheet.
Deaf seniors are routinely placed in care homes where no one signs. Deaf young adults leave school into a world with little in place for them. A Deaf-centred micro community means shared language at your doorstep — with visual design principles, accessible alerting, and communication-rich common spaces built in from day one.
Belonging shouldn't require an interpreter.
Between "aging at home alone" and "moving into care" is a better option: aging in community. Senior micro communities — and intergenerational buildings that pair seniors with young adults — keep people known, needed, and connected for years longer.
Planning for our senior cohousing phase is already underway.
For decades, housing in Canada has been treated as a commodity first and a community last. The result is a country where people live closer together and feel further apart than ever.
Micro communities flip the order. Belonging is the design brief; the building follows. We believe that when the first six-unit micro community succeeds, it becomes a template — for us, and for any community group, non-profit, or builder who wants to copy it. That's the point. We're not just building buildings; we're proving a model.
Standardized designs from the CMHC Housing Design Catalogue and financing programs under Canada's Housing Plan make this the right moment. The tools finally exist. What's needed now is someone to put them together — and people like you to make it real.
The first micro community will be a four-to-six-home building in British Columbia, matched to the land we find. Your support makes it — and everything after it — possible.
