Developers and community leaders are finalizing a plan for a run-down Towson neighborhood that will replace derelict student houses with about 160 new houses.

Activists have been working on a plan for the Towson Manor Village ? a community of formerly rustic Victorian houses converted into affordable housing for university students ? for the past three years. They said the proposal is a product of cooperation.

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