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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The latest housing development to break ground on that thoroughfare is Union at Rose Park in the Harambee neighborhood. Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025 While the Dosker Manor rebuild still years away, LMHA is also firming plans to renovate other public housing developments across the city. Keely Doll, The Courier-Journal, 18 Sep. 2025 The potable water will instead be used to provide water for Pascua Yaqui's latest 200-home housing development, which Hernandez said would provide about 800 tribal members with new homes within the tribal lands. Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 18 Sep. 2025 In Florida, remaining areas of open ground are being consumed by housing developments. Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 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 1 Oct. 2025.

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