Affordable Housing – Community owned

For the last 10 years the need for affordable housing has been highlighted in many ways:

Young people, especially families, leaving Findhorn Ecovillage for lack of a ‘suitable’ home
More Foundation core-workers commuting into the Ecovillage – and vehicle running costs add strain on minimum wage earners
Older Community members seeking to move back to The Park as the Ecovillage offers social inclusion they want in their more dependent years.

In a Findhorn Community survey in February 2016 94% of 339 respondents felt that more affordable accommodation was needed at The Park; 108 of these respondents said they would be interested in renting such housing.

Situation [email protected] January 2022

Vision 25:25

25 community owned affordable homes by 2025.

Aim

A diverse range of properties in

- size — from family homes to ‘tiny houses’
- tenure — short-term and long term secure tenancies, shared ownership, co-housing &c.
- design re. architecture, technology and re. contexts — ranging from dense co-housing clusters to more secluded individual housing.

Current Project:

North Whins:

A land development project by Duneland Ltd. adjacent to the Findhorn Foundation: a natural extension of The Park Ecovillage. The development process for approx. 38 homes plus commercial units (of which 10 are Section75) went smoothly, from community consultations to the S75 proPET choice for 8 units; the pandemic however slowed the permit process down considerably. But January 2021 saw ground breaking work start.
Click here for updates and here for construction photos

Please consider our community-owned affordable housing program for your charitable donation; you will help us repay our loans faster, which frees up cash for building more affordable community housing stock.

Section75 properties are made available to community members on a permanent basis via the Findhorn Ecovillage Community Land & Housing Trust Allocations Policy.

Currently available accommodation at the Park is listed every week in the Ecovillage’s publication “Rainbow Bridge.” Electronic subscriptions are available from .

If you are looking for a property, we suggest you subscribe to get a sense of what’s possible.

PET’s Housing diVision consists of community volunteers & part-time associates who are available to assist (wider) Findhorn Ecovillage Community bodies with Housing issues where necessary—especially in providing affordable housing—it does not bid for jobs. If any (wider) Community body requires a developer for Section75 housing, please offer it for our consideration!