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

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

These decisions put some of the largest housing developments affected by the fires in a bind.

From Los Angeles Times

Since 2010, they have bought shopping centres, office parks and solar farms as well as funding large housing developments with borrowed funds.

From BBC

Police have said they are attending a road traffic collision involving a car and three children in a housing development in west Belfast.

From BBC

Related Words

• subdivision 
• tract