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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The municipality of Anchorage and a team of developers are working together to convert a mile-long stretch of rolling forest in Girdwood into what could become the largest housing development the community has seen in decades.
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Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2022
Just a mile or so from Nickerson Gardens, the Jordan Downs housing development shows signs of revitalization.
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Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
The housing development at the village hall’s current location meets a need and also creates a tax base to generate revenue, Yauck said at village board meeting.
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Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2021
San Francisco housing development in 2022 will be the year of the mega-project.
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J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2021
Residents in a Bowling Green, Kentucky housing development are mourning the death of 14 of their neighbors, including seven children who were killed when a tornado swept through last Friday.
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Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Dec. 2021
Affordable housing development is not an enterprise that generates large profits.
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David Calvert, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2021
County Executive Ilene Shapiro credits the cooperation among the organizations and other community partners with making the housing development a reality.
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Megan Becka, cleveland, 28 Oct. 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has caused global supply change problems, and the shipping container apartments are not the only housing development facing delays in Salt Lake City.
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From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2021
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“Housing development.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20development. Accessed 25 Jan. 2022.
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