The project proposes a community-led development process for existing low-density urban areas, rooted in collective landholding as a means to tackle issues of unaffordability, gentrification, and displacement. Low-density urban peripheries, suspended in their “unrealized potential,” become prime targets for gentrification—a recursive loop of speculation and displacement. They are activated by a dual pressure: city residents seeking affordable options due to rising housing costs and newcomers pursuing economic opportunities. These processes can either leave the built environment unchanged, with only shifts in residents and businesses or trigger developer-led "urban renewal" projects. In both cases- the existing residents will either be bought or pushed out by rising costs, and move to the ‘next’ peripheral neighborhood. As this choreography of displacement repeats across many capitalist cities, it takes different shapes in each case. To study, analyze, and react more nuancedly to this phenomenon, the project focuses on Astoria, Queens, NYC, as a case study. It serves as both a localized intervention and a scalable logic for resisting gentrification and unregulated gain through alternative urban protocols. Envisioning a scenario where a group of homeowners agree to collectively own land, they could not only resist, but also actively shape and even benefit from development processes. The project then proposes an interplay between a resident co-op, the municipality, and developers, creating an ecology of incentives that directs profits from new market-rate units on the shared land toward community priorities such as affordable housing, public infrastructure, and other local needs. Operating within the capitalist framework, the project subverts its destructive logic by exploring alternative configurations of shared landholding, ranging from adjacent lots to entire urban blocks. It reimagines ownership as a fluid, collective arrangement rather than isolated, privatized units, fundamentally reshaping power dynamics in speculation and real estate development.