housing project
noun
: a publicly supported and administered housing development planned usually for low-income families
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That means the tourist-tax largesse can’t help pay for affordable housing projects or improvements to public transit, as some community leaders prefer, but instead must be spent on tourism marketing, expanding the convention center or improving sports and arts venues.
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Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026
Many blasted the 8-30g law, which sharply restricts towns from rejecting housing projects that include at least 30% affordable housing.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026
The city went so far as to spend $2 million from the city’s Housing Trust Fund on a potential affordable housing project.
—Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
Four decades later, Reynoso points to a potent track record of activism and progressive political victories like few others, forged from countless meetings in public housing projects, community boards, political clubhouses and on street corners.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
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Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026
Many blasted the 8-30g law, which sharply restricts towns from rejecting housing projects that include at least 30% affordable housing.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026
The city went so far as to spend $2 million from the city’s Housing Trust Fund on a potential affordable housing project.
—Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
Four decades later, Reynoso points to a potent track record of activism and progressive political victories like few others, forged from countless meetings in public housing projects, community boards, political clubhouses and on street corners.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
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“Housing project.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20project. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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