How to Use housing development in a Sentence

housing development

noun
  • The Hawthorne Valley green space wraps around the site of the 33-acre housing development.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The slope is on city property at the rear of a housing development built in the mid 1970s.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Kroger was one of the first stores to open in Prosper in 2016 ahead of the housing development that’s since been built.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Had it been approved, the change would have cleared the way for a housing development.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Bluffs will be one of the new housing developments built in Los Alamos.
    Time, 24 July 2023
  • With a housing development boom in the early 2000s, the town quickly grew out of the three schools.
    Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2021
  • But all that would change if the housing development came to New Berlin, the man said, and the room erupted in some of the loudest applause of the night.
    John Eligon, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Today, new housing developments line the broad highway all the way to the lake.
    Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
  • April was a busy month for new housing developments and rentals in the Charlotte metro area.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2025
  • There are 16 short-term rentals in the Beach Plum Village housing development down the street.
    Candace Taylor, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • Is shooting them in the middle of a housing development the best idea?
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But the quarry where they were found is now part of a housing development.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 July 2019
  • Now, the latest plans for the site call for a huge housing development on the choice property.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The latter raised her alone in a housing development in a suburb south of Paris.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Years after the woman’s death, a housing development is about to break ground right around where the body’s buried.
    Lauren Hill, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Quatro had buried himself in a mass of para grass right next to a housing development and a golf course.
    Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
  • The pond is to the north of where Pulte plans to build, and is designed to handle runoff from about 20 acres of the housing development, according to Pulte.
    Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
  • San Francisco housing development in 2022 will be the year of the mega-project.
    J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Luisa Rivera, 53, a mother who lives in in the Cathedral housing development in the South End, said a child care subsidy could help.
    Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2021
  • But the move could hurt future housing development in an area already in dire need of more homes.
    Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2021
  • The freeze was lifted in 2009, but housing development since has progressed at a crawl.
    The Arizona Republic, 31 July 2023
  • If Smith hadn’t done his thing, the place would have remained a corn and hay field or perhaps become the next housing development.
    Gabriel Popkin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • His home was demolished decades ago, though there’s a plaque with his name on it at a new housing development there.
    Rodney Jefferson, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The same is not true of the housing development proposal.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
  • His plan was to build a resort and housing development.
    Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 27 June 2019
  • Over the past few years, co-living housing developments have sprung up in major cities across the country.
    J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 6 July 2019
  • The plant was shuttered; the surrounding land is now a wildlife refuge abutted by a sleek housing development.
    Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The house, built in 2018 in the Quarry Woods housing development, includes three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a three-car garage.
    Jacques De Carbonnieres, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • The transit bill requires local officials to set goals for denser housing development — and then craft plans to hit those goals — for areas near transit stops.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
  • That has meant both market-rate and workforce housing developments that are subsidized by a complex formula that relies on federal tax credits and low-cost state financing.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025

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