By Jonathan D. Epstein
News Business Reporter
Eight months ago, a Dunkirk nonprofit agency and the Fruit Belt Community Land Trust unveiled plans to bring 50 affordable housing units to the East Side neighborhood, adjacent to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
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