housing project

noun

|Updated on: 18 Aug 2018

Definition of housing project

: a publicly supported and administered housing development planned usually for low-income families

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Recent Examples of housing project from the Web

The Beecher Terrace housing project is coming down and new mixed-income apartments are coming in.

— maggie menderski, The Courier-Journal, "Where you can live on a typical income around downtown Louisville," 9 July 2018
The name stuck but the housing project failed when the 1880s boom turned to bust.

— roger showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Allied Gardens-Grantville: John Wayne memorabilia and buttermilk pancakes are just two special features," 22 June 2018
The next person to enter was a man in his fifties with thick glasses, one of the holdouts from the neighboring housing project.

— ben austen, The New Republic, "How one American city chose to tackle crime, combat racism, and reckon with the legacy of police brutality," 21 June 2018
In Dalu New Area, a town of some 30,000 people about a two-hour drive from Ordos and modeled after Kangbashi, a 230-unit housing project is under construction amid partly vacant complexes.

— dominique fong, WSJ, "China’s Ghost Towns Haunt Its Economy," 15 June 2018
Habitat's Bistekville project in Quezon City, where Elmedo and more than 300 other families live, was the first social housing project backed by the local government, for row houses of 301 sq ft each.

— rina chandran, The Christian Science Monitor, "Slum dwellers in the Philippines build homes through community programs," 7 June 2018
Police said Kimson Green, 17, an honor student at Northwestern High, and his friend Ricky Dixon were gunned down outside a home at the Liberty Square housing projects in broad daylight.

— Fox News, "Miami police offer 'mea culpa' after incorrectly announcing arrest of suspected murderers," 8 May 2018
Under one of the new laws, homeless housing projects that meet a list of requirements will be able to avoid a lengthy process at City Hall that includes environmental review and can trigger a public hearing.

— dakota smith, latimes.com, "New L.A. laws clear the path for homeless housing projects and motel conversions," 11 Apr. 2018
All photos by Brian Tomaino Built in the early ‘50s on former farmland on the outer edges of Milwaukee, the Westlawn public housing project was a product of its era.

— patrick sisson, Curbed, "In Milwaukee, a public housing project aims to revitalize a neighborhood," 5 Apr. 2018

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