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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Pulte has previously gotten approval for and built a number of other housing developments in Aurora.
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R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
Trump tariffs live updates: EU OKs countermeasures, China hits US with 84% tariff
Leonard Windham, a Raleigh area realtor, gave ABC News a tour of a new housing development in Youngsville -- an up-and-coming town just 20 miles north of Raleigh.
—Briana Stewart, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025
Stuck in limbo Image Omar Robinson had lived nearly all his life in a public housing development in Brooklyn.
—Jonah Markowitz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Two decades later, most of the city’s high-rise public housing developments are gone, but the transformative second half of the project remains unrealized.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
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R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
Trump tariffs live updates: EU OKs countermeasures, China hits US with 84% tariff
Leonard Windham, a Raleigh area realtor, gave ABC News a tour of a new housing development in Youngsville -- an up-and-coming town just 20 miles north of Raleigh.
—Briana Stewart, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025
Stuck in limbo Image Omar Robinson had lived nearly all his life in a public housing development in Brooklyn.
—Jonah Markowitz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Two decades later, most of the city’s high-rise public housing developments are gone, but the transformative second half of the project remains unrealized.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Housing development.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20development. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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