High street co-housing directors Catherine Spencer (left) and Anne Thomson say interest in the co-housing initiative to be built on the former High Street School site has been strong. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSONConstruction of Dunedin's first co-housing project will start early next year. In June, Urban Cohousing Otepoti Ltd contracted Ehaus, a New Zealand company specialising in energy-efficient housing, to build a co-housing development on the former High Street School site. On Saturday, representatives from the New Brighton Sustainable Coastal Village Project and the Viva Christchurch co-housing project attended a workshop at the High St site to discuss the future of co-housing in New Zealand. At present the only operational co-housing community in New Zealand is in Ranui, West Auckland.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 07, 2016 17:08 UTC