Fairway Village, the Santa Fe affordable housing demonstration project, is located on 31 acres of level land just southwest of the city limits in a rapidly expanding area of Santa Fe County.

This project was initiated in December 1982 when the City Council established the Mayor's Task Force on Affordable Housing to "broaden the opportunity for home ownership to include a wider spectrum of Santa Fe families," and Walton Chapman Builders was selected by HUD to carry out the affordable housing demonstration project in Santa Fe.