housing development
noun
: a group of individual dwellings or apartment houses typically of similar design that are usually built and sold or leased by one management
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Since coming to power just over a year ago, the Labour government has already announced a raft of welfare spending cuts, employer tax rises and planning reforms designed to reduce red tape and boost infrastructure projects and housing development.
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Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 3 June 2025
Today, new housing developments line the broad highway all the way to the lake.
—Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
This month, residents of the Cory Neighborhood continued their opposition to a 17-story housing development at 826 N. Winchester Blvd., which, if approved, would have represented the largest building by far in the immediate vicinity.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Most of Fort Worth’s growth has been outside Loop 820 with large housing developments supplanting prairie land in the far north and southwest.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2025
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Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 3 June 2025
Today, new housing developments line the broad highway all the way to the lake.
—Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
This month, residents of the Cory Neighborhood continued their opposition to a 17-story housing development at 826 N. Winchester Blvd., which, if approved, would have represented the largest building by far in the immediate vicinity.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Most of Fort Worth’s growth has been outside Loop 820 with large housing developments supplanting prairie land in the far north and southwest.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2025
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“Housing development.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20development. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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