The idea to provide low-cost environmental housing for people suffering from ES originating with ASEQ-EHAQ as a logical FIRST step in terms of support, due to numerous, often desperate requests for such housing.

Finding safe living spaces is difficult at best and virtually impossible for ES sufferers on the lower end of the income scale. Many can work if they have adequate workplace accommodation and suitable housing. If workplace accommodation is not available to them, ES sufferers are unable to work due to their illness, and the loss of income makes it impossible to obtain suitable accommodation. Their health continues to deteriorate while living in inappropriate housing. Many are obliged to leave their apartments, subsequently becoming homeless.

In order to recover their health and productivity despite financial hardship, ES sufferers need to have environmentally safe, low-cost housing in a safe location. Due to their impairment/illness, they may require assistance for the day to day management of their lives, which ASEQ-EHAQ is willing to provide.

This assistance would involve, for example: shopping, banking, transport for doctor’s appointments; cooking and cleaning where required; Also providing an opportunity for physical therapies; arranging for the availability of ecological non-off-gassing products, useful to ES sufferers.

There’s also arranging for social and educational events within the building, such as Yoga or exercise classes, lectures, conferences and social gatherings. Services such as the above are essential to the well-being of ES sufferers, since their impairments/illnesses can lead to isolation and may make it impossible to have any kind of social/educational life whatsoever.

Services would also include supervision of the ecological maintenance of the building and the apartments, providing environmental information to resolve day to day problems.

Living in environmentally safe conditions is the first and basic requirement for enhancing recovery from environmental sensitivities or ES.