The town of Amherst has announced what it calls a “bold step” to kick start the number of new single family homes being built in the community — the purchase of 15 acres of land on the town’s east side, off Marshview Drive.
“Everybody knows there’s a housing crisis across this country,” says Mayor David Kogon, ”and Amherst is no different.” Kogon says the town has been addressing housing issues across the income spectrum, including putting resources toward emergency shelter programs and affordable housing.
“We have all kinds of developments in the works to create a lot of multiple unit buildings like apartments and townhouses,” says Kogon. “But the one thing lacking was single family homes and executive-type homes. And we felt that’s something we also wanted to try to promote, because we’ve been losing out on, for example, physicians and other health care providers because they couldn’t find places to live.”
