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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Goodwill Industries and Woda Cooper Companies have proposed a 76-unit affordable housing development in Louisville's West End. Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Aug. 2025 The brothers thought the development would be less intrusive than a housing development, bringing in no new people or traffic. Idaho Statesman, 31 July 2025 New housing nonprofit proposed One big suggestion: The city should create a housing development corporation that would develop stable, affordable housing in neighborhoods that are gentrifying. Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2025 One of the upgrade’s goals included efforts to ensure the continued affordability of the housing development, county documents show. George Avalos, Mercury News, 28 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for housing development

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First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of housing development was in 1939

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“Housing development.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20development. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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