Organizers behind a new housing cooperative planned for Fairfield Road are asking Tantramar council for some help. They made their request on Tuesday at this week’s council meeting.
Sabine Dietz and Eric Tusz-King of Freshwinds Co-op want the Southeast Regional Service Commission to make good on its mandate to publish a housing needs assessment for the region, so that they can access funding for their non-profit housing development, and the municipality can access federal housing accelerator funding.
Dietz says it’s not just housing accelerator funding, but other housing related grants that are linked to the needs assessment, and therefore “linked to the support from the municipality.”
