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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To encourage even more construction, Villaraigosa calls for reducing development fees and reforming CEQA to speed housing development, particularly for infill housing.
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Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
One demonstration began nearly an hour before sunrise outside a housing development underway along Ellsworth Street in Berkeley being built with mostly non-labor workers.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
The new state law allows urban housing developments to bypass California Environmental Quality Act review.
—Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Developers say the project complies with Florida’s Live Local Act, a state law designed to encourage affordable housing development by limiting local governments’ ability to block qualifying projects.
—Cbs News Miami, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
One demonstration began nearly an hour before sunrise outside a housing development underway along Ellsworth Street in Berkeley being built with mostly non-labor workers.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
The new state law allows urban housing developments to bypass California Environmental Quality Act review.
—Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Developers say the project complies with Florida’s Live Local Act, a state law designed to encourage affordable housing development by limiting local governments’ ability to block qualifying projects.
—Cbs News Miami, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Housing development.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20development. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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