housing project
noun
: a publicly supported and administered housing development planned usually for low-income families
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Full Sail University plans to break ground later this year on its first student housing project across the street from campus in Winter Park.
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Tyler Williams, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2025
Authorities had pushed out most of the 1,800 families who lived in the Mexican American neighborhoods of Chavez Ravine to build a public housing project called Elysian Park Heights to house 17,000 people.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
Developers say Milwaukee should extend that to workforce housing projects.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
Student housing projects have increased in recent years — a hallmark of Davis' and Hartzell’s work to increase campus accessibility and affordability.
—Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Tyler Williams, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2025
Authorities had pushed out most of the 1,800 families who lived in the Mexican American neighborhoods of Chavez Ravine to build a public housing project called Elysian Park Heights to house 17,000 people.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
Developers say Milwaukee should extend that to workforce housing projects.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
Student housing projects have increased in recent years — a hallmark of Davis' and Hartzell’s work to increase campus accessibility and affordability.
—Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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“Housing project.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20project. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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