housing scheme

British  

noun

1. a local-authority housing plan

2. the houses built according to such a plan; housing estate

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Example Sentences

A councillor breached Leicester City Council's code of conduct by being rude and aggressive to officers during a briefing on a housing scheme, a standards committee has ruled.

From BBC

He says the housing scheme in Lewisham helps to tackle "a crisis of affordable housing, particularly for young people, a crisis of loneliness, which affects not just older people, but also young people. And we also have an issue about age segregation, which has multiple impacts on our society".

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But much of the four and a half acre site in Rhos on Sea, Colwyn Bay, which is surrounded on all sides by existing housing, is grass which would need to be cut on a regular basis until work on the new housing scheme begins.

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She was responding after a number of attacks on homes in a mixed housing scheme in north Belfast, which has led some residents to say they plan to leave the area.

From BBC

Clanmil Housing Association, which operates the housing scheme, has said the attacks are a "sectarian-motivated hate crime".

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