Definition of housing project
: a publicly supported and administered housing development planned usually for low-income families
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There are $4 million brownstones across the street from housing projects.
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After the attack in her modest flat, a public-housing project, Halimi's body was thrown out the window into the courtyard below.
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Its three other proposals included a 150-unit senior housing project, a 120-unit multifamily rental building, and a 60-unit single-style-ranch condominium project.
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Soon, the police action drew a crowd from the nearby Dorie Miller Homes, a public housing project.
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Winton Hills is largely made up of the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority's low-income housing project, Winton Terrace.
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Blankfein, the son of a postal worker who grew up in a Brooklyn housing project, has become a billionaire from his Goldman Sachs career.
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Both live in the Oak Manor/Oak Village Apartments, a low-income housing project on Austin Highway, and both said their families receive food stamps.
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Typically, people seeking an apartment in a housing project have to get on a waiting list first, and may wait up to a year, sometimes longer, before a unit is available.
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First Known Use of housing project
1900
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Definition of housing project for English Language Learners
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: a group of houses or apartments that are built for poor people
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