housing development

noun

|Updated on: 16 Aug 2018

Definition of housing development

: 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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Recent Examples of housing development from the Web

In recent years, that’s encouraged local governments to accelerate the sale of urban industrial land for housing development.

— Fortune, "This Is London's Hottest Property — Thanks to Amazon," 13 July 2018
Filling a need Quigley became agency director in 1999 and bought the Poplar Place complex with federal grant funds designated for special nonprofits called community housing development organizations.

— lynn horsley, kansascity, "JoCo agency gave low-income residents a lifeline. Now it's shutting down," 1 July 2018
Aziza Hasan, Executive Director of NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership For Change There is a great deal of opposition to new housing developments.

— amy chance, sacbee, ""Build a lot more of it": What California can do to solve its housing problem," 18 June 2018
Almost the whole of Florida is alligator habitat, and the state is smothered with housing developments rimming the shores of tens of thousands of lakes, ponds, river, canals and other waterways gators call home.

— shannon tompkins, Houston Chronicle, "Wildlife is wild, so admire from afar," 13 June 2018
During 2015 and 2016, the city took part in another housing development authority program called the Blight Reduction Program.

— steve lord, Aurora Beacon-News, "Aurora to get more funding to fight blight," 11 June 2018
Those involved with the project are touting it as the first new housing development of its size in downtown Anchorage in 20 years.

— annie zak, Anchorage Daily News, "With start of demolition, Ship Creek condo development gets underway," 17 May 2018
The Oak Brook Village Board will again face a decision on a senior housing development board members rejected in January following a unanimous vote in favor of the project by the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals.

— chuck fieldman, chicagotribune.com, "After rejecting senior housing plan, Oak Brook faces panel's unanimous recommendation to reconsider," 2 May 2018
Volunteer firefighters also staff a station at Hidden Springs, a housing development northwest of Boise.

— liz wyatt, idahostatesman, "Boise Fire Department to build new station | Idaho Statesman," 25 Apr. 2018

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