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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Two sites in the East Amherst village center, including a vacant school building, will be developed into a $27 million, 70-apartment affordable housing project by Way Finders Inc., a Springfield nonprofit housing organization.Amherst...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Residents who live in six Easthampton Housing Authority properties will soon decide whether to form a tenants organization to represent them — a move that, if successful, would be the first such organization formed since the housing...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Construction of 28 small studio apartments for low-income individuals, including more than a third that will be set aside for those who have recently been homeless, is expected to begin by mid-March.The Valley Community Development project...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A 17-unit townhouse development in the shadow of the tower dormitories in the Southwest Area of the University of Massachusetts campus is being proposed for a 2.2-acre parcel at the corner of Sunset Avenue and Fearing Street.The process of...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A project that would bring 800 beds for University of Massachusetts students to new apartment-style developments along Massachusetts Avenue remains on track to open by fall 2023.UMass officials this week announced that Balfour Beatty Campus...

By GRETA JOCHEM

NORTHAMPTON — Rue Walther moved to the Bay State Village neighborhood in 2004, drawn to it in part because she could afford it. She bought an 840-square-foot home for $185,000.She knew her next-door neighbor had a large lot, but when it was sold, she...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A 50-year-old sorority house on Olympia Drive recently sold for $1.5 million to an Amherst development team whose projects have included a college-student apartment building on an adjacent parcel and mixed-use projects downtown.47 Olympia...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — Dora Tseng still remembers the day last year when she brought her newborn baby home to North Village Apartments, the University of Massachusetts family housing complex. She didn’t need to buy much for her son, Fafa, because her neighbors...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

EASTHAMPTON — The city Planning Board is expected to review an application for a three-story apartment building on Cottage Street next week, which would modify plans for a similar proposal already approved by the board for the site in 2017.The new...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — Residents in the Northampton Housing Authority’s more than 600 apartments will soon have to go outside to smoke.The housing authority’s board had discussed a smoking ban in the past but no action was taken before the Department of...