Erie-Ellington Homes from Hickory Consortium

October 16 marked the groundbreaking for

Erie-Ellington homes, a 50-unit affordable housing complex by the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts. Erie-Ellington is a project of the GreenVillage Company, developer of Cambridge Cohousing (see case study in

EBN

Vol. 6, No. 9) and a participant in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America Program. GreenVillage’s “EcoDynamic” homes should cost no more to build than standard low- to moderate-income housing, while using 45% less energy and saving 40% in total cost for water, electricity and heat.