housing development

noun

1. a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.

Word History and Origins

Origin of housing development¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

For example, they could buy up property in housing developments.

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Spotlight has also spoken to a woman from one of several Catholic families who fled a new housing development in the Lower Oldpark area of north Belfast this summer due to sectarian intimidation.

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Firefighters and emergency responders searched into the afternoon for anyone who may have been trapped under the mounds of rubble outside the building, which is part of a public housing development in the Bronx.

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How much additional taxpayer money should a state throw at affordable housing development?

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Similarly, reggaetón developed in the working-class barrios and public housing developments of Puerto Rico.

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Related Words

• subdivision 
• tract