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RuPaul was born in San Diego in 1960, the third of four children and the only boy, and brought up in a yellow three-bedroom tract house, one of four models in a housing development called Michelle Manor.
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Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
But his idyllic Mayberry was now a construction yard surrounded by tract houses.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
Most of the homes are tract houses, and many have taken on the personality of their owners with upgrades over the years.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
Depending on the location, the cost for a ranch tract house with a garage in the suburbs was within a middle-class family’s reach.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023
In a 1973 photograph of a tract house in Longmont, Colo., Adams shows us the rear of the structure and its patio, on which all the chairs but one face inward, toward the split-level home, as if the people who live here can’t bear to look out on the world their prosperity has destroyed.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
Set in a dark, cluttered space — the tract house where hermetic Charlie’s soul unfolds — The Whale feels as contrived as a stage play.
—Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023
They’re built closer together than the typical tract house to make the neighborhood more walkable, most with no yards to speak of, but plenty of pocket parks — a boon to busy production workers.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
The floor plan before them showed a three-bedroom, high-end tract house on a cul-de-sac in the San Fernando Valley.
—Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
But his idyllic Mayberry was now a construction yard surrounded by tract houses.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
Most of the homes are tract houses, and many have taken on the personality of their owners with upgrades over the years.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
Depending on the location, the cost for a ranch tract house with a garage in the suburbs was within a middle-class family’s reach.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023
In a 1973 photograph of a tract house in Longmont, Colo., Adams shows us the rear of the structure and its patio, on which all the chairs but one face inward, toward the split-level home, as if the people who live here can’t bear to look out on the world their prosperity has destroyed.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
Set in a dark, cluttered space — the tract house where hermetic Charlie’s soul unfolds — The Whale feels as contrived as a stage play.
—Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023
They’re built closer together than the typical tract house to make the neighborhood more walkable, most with no yards to speak of, but plenty of pocket parks — a boon to busy production workers.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
The floor plan before them showed a three-bedroom, high-end tract house on a cul-de-sac in the San Fernando Valley.
—Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
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“Tract house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tract%20house. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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