How to Use low-income housing in a Sentence

low-income housing

noun
  • Elk Grove is taking steps forward to add more low-income housing to the area.
    Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This is one of the first times, though, that the GOP has been so vocal in opposing low-income housing.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
  • We’re scheduled to meet at Cox’s row house, across the street from a low-income housing project on a hip Brooklyn block.
    Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2023
  • It's got the Taiwan agreements, and it's got a boost in the low-income housing tax credit program.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The low-income housing is also on Glenneyre Street, just a few blocks closer to the city’s downtown.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Other proposals since 2006 to put low-income housing on the site have failed.
    John Tuohy, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • In May, the project received over $12 million in low-income housing tax credits.
    Megan Sims, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There’s still the task of getting cities long wary of approving any kind of housing — let alone low-income housing — to sign off on these projects.
    Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
  • The new multiple dwellings will not be low-income housing but market-rate rentals.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 June 2024
  • That’s because over the last year, the city has helped fund conversions of hotels into low-income housing.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The 8 percent standard comes from a state law meant to encourage low-income housing.
    Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • The success of a low-income housing complex depends on its social warmth.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Jan. 2025
  • But there has been far less growth in the less lucrative sector of affordable and low-income housing.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2024
  • Neutra, for his part, saw his scheme for low-income housing in Elysian Park denounced as a socialist plot.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Elo-Rivera tried to amend that part of proposal to restrict where the low-income housing could be built, but the council deadlocked 4-4 on his amendment.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The building was used for low-income housing before it was vacated in 2008.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The development will be funded with the help of low-income housing tax credits.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Mobile homes and low-income housing are prevalent in fire-prone areas.
    Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Fred took a job as a maintenance man for the county, installing plumbing in low-income housing and mowing the fairgrounds.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The most recent proposal involved a low-income housing project with some 40 units.
    Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Bluffdale has done a good job in offering low-income housing.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The property includes 15 units for low-income housing and some shelter use.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
  • There was a boom in the construction of social and low-income housing, a response to an urgent need in San Sebastian and other parts of the country.
    Marina P. Asins, Architectural Digest, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The city had thirty-two million dollars in E.P.A. funding to equip low-income housing with solar panels, whose output can be sold back to the grid.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The mayor likened the struggle to fulfill the goal of bringing low-income housing to those neighborhoods to the segregationist South of decades ago.
    Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 29 July 2024
  • In the months since his offer, the council makeup has changed — there are three new council members — and the controversial plans for a low-income housing project have been dropped.
    Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • The final version of the bill shifted some money that had been targeted for homeless programs to funds for low-income housing.
    Byscott Sonner, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • That state agency made available to the developers low-income housing tax credits to fund the bulk of the development.
    Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2024
  • Homelessness found the city needs 2,478 low-income housing units to alleviate the housing gap.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • Most of the more than 600 properties financed with low-income housing tax credits in Arizona have not gone through the qualified contract process.
    Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023

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