The East Village apartments Stages 1 and 2 are an exemplar of how higher quality affordable housing, particularly sub-tropical can be developed in the city’s suburbs. The development takes advantage of its proximity to existing train and bus systems, shopping and social support services. Notwithstanding the busy surrounding roads and restricted site conditions, the apartments are designed to provide a high quality lifestyle for life in the sub-tropics. A distinctive contemporary architecture with raw concrete finishes and various scales and types of aluminium sun-shading, with well-planned and well finished interiors are hallmarks of this development.