housing development

noun

Updated on: 13 Apr 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

At 1000 Boylston — a Back Bay housing development approved last month by the BPDA — a plan for two towers, the taller one stretching 566 feet, eventually became a single 484-foot building, with one-third as many units.

— tim logan, BostonGlobe.com, "For planned Winthrop Square skyscraper, a design challenge," 31 Mar. 2018
The expansion is part of Covenant Presbyterian's $10 million capital campaign, which also includes subsidizing a new housing development for low-income families nearby.

— ely portillo, charlotteobserver, "This Charlotte church is building a huge addition on a road near uptown | Charlotte Observer," 29 Mar. 2018
Plans to expand a community room at the Ping Yuen North affordable housing development in Chinatown were nixed to make room for the electrical equipment PG&E required.

— dominic fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, "SF complains PG&E is holding up major projects with unreasonable demands," 27 Mar. 2018
The Arc of the Farmington Valley is now a partner in a cluster-housing development.

— josh kovner, courant.com, "Bill Would Encourage Housing Options For Group Home Clients," 23 Mar. 2018
In areas with fewer than 1,000 people per square mile, new housing developments brought more people out into the sprawl, and these population increases brought big increases in emissions.

— cathleen o'grady, Ars Technica, "In Salt Lake City, suburban sprawl is bad news for climate change," 12 Mar. 2018
The site was earlier home to the Island Green golf course after Budd successor Transit America closed the plant in 1987 and sold off neighboring land for housing development.

— joseph n. distefano, Philly.com, "NE Phila ex-Budd site sold for $18M to CDC for warehouses," 8 Mar. 2018
The new housing developments may only mean there will be more people feeling dissatisfied with the quality of the downtown sense of winter space.

— Anchorage Daily News, "Housing alone won’t revitalize downtown Anchorage," 5 Mar. 2018
Applications for new housing developments have nearly ground to a halt over the past year, and there are plenty of reasons for that.

— OregonLive.com, "Apartment construction is drying up. Is affordable housing measure to blame?," 19 Feb. 2018

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