housing project

noun

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

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Under the law, developers get tax breaks anywhere from 75% to 100% on housing projects that reserve at least 40% of the units as affordable for a period of 30 years. Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2025 The town filed a lawsuit last week at the Santa Clara County Superior Court for clarification regarding the application process for builder’s remedy housing projects. Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025 Williams grew up twelve miles to the south, in an Atlanta housing project that has since been razed. Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025 In the months before the meeting, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation was pursuing a lawsuit alleging the city illegally denied funding for an affordable housing project that the foundation was proposing. Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for housing project

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First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of housing project was in 1900

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“Housing project.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20project. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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