How to Use housing development in a Sentence

housing development

noun
  • The Hawthorne Valley green space wraps around the site of the 33-acre housing development.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The slope is on city property at the rear of a housing development built in the mid 1970s.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Kroger was one of the first stores to open in Prosper in 2016 ahead of the housing development that’s since been built.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Had it been approved, the change would have cleared the way for a housing development.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Bluffs will be one of the new housing developments built in Los Alamos.
    Time, 24 July 2023
  • Now, the latest plans for the site call for a huge housing development on the choice property.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The latter raised her alone in a housing development in a suburb south of Paris.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The freeze was lifted in 2009, but housing development since has progressed at a crawl.
    The Arizona Republic, 31 July 2023
  • If Smith hadn’t done his thing, the place would have remained a corn and hay field or perhaps become the next housing development.
    Gabriel Popkin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The plant was shuttered; the surrounding land is now a wildlife refuge abutted by a sleek housing development.
    Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The streets will be part of Lakefront North, a new 11.4-acre mixed-use housing development in Columbia.
    Allana Haynes, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Out in this swath of Sonoran desert, dotted with saguaro cactus and backed by rocky peaks, the fate of massive housing developments are now in question.
    Joshua Partlow, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
  • Worley said the barrage of gunfire broke out during a large block party at a housing development in the 800 block of Gretna Court.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 2 July 2023
  • Then, in 2017, construction crews building a housing development south of Grand Rapids found mastodon bones.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The small housing development just off Main Street in Concord is almost complete.
    Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The housing development would be eight stories, while the existing office building is six stories, the project plans show.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The cost of land may slow down the pace of housing development, Bristol said, but the city is now turning to building a commercial corridor around the tollway and Highway 380.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Widespread affordable housing development is, for now, largely stalled due to the costs of construction and lack of funds.
    Nicholas Slayton, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Rose is about to complete Sendero Verde, a 750-unit affordable housing development in Harlem.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Stoppard singled out a photo by Janine Niépce of a mother and infant from what seems to be a housing development outside of Paris.
    Amy Verner, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2024
  • That should have been enough, but Vulcan and other big developers signed up for a deal, then called the Grand Bargain, that would impose the fee regime on all new housing development.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • But for now, the multi-tenant housing development won’t be expanding — at least not in Delray Beach.
    Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The land disposal is a crucial step toward building Holtan Hills, which would be the biggest housing development in Girdwood in decades.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • As more housing development comes to Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, the traffic pattern there may be changing, too.
    Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2022
  • In 1990, there was already substantial housing development in the fire-prone Sierra foothills.
    Brad Plumer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Bass signed the order at a dirt lot in Boyle Heights where an affordable housing development is under construction.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • In 2017, construction workers found mastodon bones at a housing development in Byron Center, south of Grand Rapids.
    Layla McMurtrie, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The 43-acre property is already a working airfield attached to a roll-up housing development.
    J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 5 July 2022
  • Nearly two decades later, Tent City, the housing development, opened to residents.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • That is the proposition of a 2.5-million-square-foot affordable housing development going up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York.
    Jane Margolies, New York Times, 28 July 2023

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