housing project

[ hou-zing proj-ekt, proj-ikt ]

/ ˈhaʊ zɪŋ ˌprɒdʒ ɛkt, ˌprɒdʒ ɪkt /

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noun

a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.

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Origin of housing project

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby housing project

housing, housing association, housing benefit, housing development, housing estate, housing project, housing scheme, housing start, Housman, Houssay, Houston

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The company hopes its technology will be used to facilitate housing projects in remote areas.
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In previous roles, he supported developer fee increases to fund affordable housing projects and a failed affordable housing bond measure, as well as state legislation he wrote to encourage high-density housing near transit.
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That land’s going to stay as a duplex instead of becoming a 90-unit housing project with 15 affordable units.
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Facial recognition technology is being deployed in housing projects, homeless shelters, schools, even across entire cities—usually without much fanfare or discussion.
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Voters also approved a new housing project in Poway while rejecting one in Oceanside.
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They selected an “easy mark” who turned out to be an off-duty NYC Housing Authority cop named James Carragher.
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He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.
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I started just writing these songs, at first it felt like a project or something.
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He stopped at one point to ask someone directions to a particular housing development.
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Thus begins an episode of The Mindy Project centered around a guy trying to have butt sex with his girlfriend.
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The worthy knight not being now alive to veto the project, a figure of him has been placed opposite the College in Edmund Street.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
Her black eyes were fixed intently on his face, but she was thinking, weighing in her mind some suddenly-formed project.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Very soon I induced my directors to adopt the view that the railway company must encourage and help the project.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
New York is like one of those nightmares a certain class of writers project and label 'Earth in the Year 2000.'
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
The project of a congress was accordingly abandoned, and everywhere recrimination gave place to rejoicing.
The Eve of the Revolution|Carl Becker

British Dictionary definitions for housing project

housing project

noun

US a housing development built and maintained by a local authority, usually intended for people with a low or moderate income

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