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 developer previously built Vale East, a 176-unit, 456-bed student housing development 5 minutes from Valencia College’s east campus. Tyler Williams, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2025 The draft agreement that involves HUD includes various legislative steps that the city would have to take to ease housing development regulations, moves in line with the mayor’s Cut the Tape initiative. Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025 Mayor Cavalier Johnson's housing development plan has gained a key endorsement — after the administration changed it in response to opposition. Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 8 July 2025 Affordable housing development is managed by the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency. Sacbee.com, 8 July 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 18 Jul. 2025.

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