This paper describes the construction of 'Reach for the Clouds', an inventive scheme to build a resident-maintained 'networked community' in Atherton Gardens, an ethnically-diverse, low-income, high rise public housing estate in Melbourne, Australia. The long term goal of the project is for it to become self-funding, and owned and operated by local residents. This requires both training and skills development as well as the creation of an enterprise base to fund the operating and capital costs of the network. By Denise Meredyth, Liza Hopkins, Scott Ewing and Julian Thomas.