Freshwinds Eco-Village Housing Co-operative announced plans last week for a major new development that could provide secure co-op housing for up to 60 households starting as early as 2025. The recently incorporated group has just bought 21 acres of land off Fairfield Road in Sackville.
Sabine Dietz and Eric Tusz-King are co-chairs Freshwinds. “The intention is not just to have housing, but to offer more than just housing,” says Dietz. “Even now in the development we’re really talking through how can we incorporate different lifestyles and ways of living.”
The co-op also aims to have a diverse membership, including a range of different income levels. “We know that there’s lots of people in the low level income and right up to the middle income that need housing,” says Tusz-King, “and so that’s the gap that we’re going to be filling.”
