How to Use multifamily in a Sentence
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There are large multifamily dwellings here, too.
—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
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The law would impose a steep tax on owners of multifamily homes who left them sitting empty.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
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These are the kinds of projects that are typical of the area’s recent surge in multifamily housing.
—Mark Niquette and Augusta Saraiva, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
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Those are all key for multifamily investors.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
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Chernock said his proposal is not out of place, just a small, well‑designed multifamily project in a mixed context.
—Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
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But for commercial and multifamily projects, the reviews can take months.
—Laura Kinsler, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2025
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But that’s a drop in the bucket compared with the hundreds of thousands of multifamily units in the region.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2026
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While the island’s south shore has a row of garden-style apartment buildings, new multifamily buildings are banned in most of the city.
—J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2021
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From the ruins of an old rock quarry, a village of multifamily houses is sprouting on 2 acres of land.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2024
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In total, 70% of all multifamily rental units in the city are rented by one of those companies.
—Emily Price, PCMAG, 4 Aug. 2024
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But the supply of new multifamily housing is growing, which helps to bring down rental prices, according to the report.
—Anna Bahney, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
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Austin, Texas, is seeing the biggest hit to rents, thanks to still more construction of multifamily units.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025
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Helping that along has been a surge of multifamily construction, putting more apartments on the market and bringing down rents in the process.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 10 July 2023
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This, in turn, has led to cooling demand for rental properties, which make up the bulk of multifamily construction.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
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In the other zone, well and septic systems would limit the number and size of new multifamily dwellings, Lang said.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2023
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About 1 million multifamily rental units are slated to come online later this year and next, Popov said.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
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Warm-weather cities such as Atlanta are seeing a wave of new multifamily rental units coming online.
—Will Parker, WSJ, 5 June 2023
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Some of the city's oldest multifamily structures line the boulevard in one of its densest neighborhoods.
—Tara Prindiville, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
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The board had a plan a few years ago to use the nonprofit to purchase and renovate a number of multifamily properties.
—Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2021
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After the multifamily housing construction building boom of the past two years, the sector is pressing pause.
—Michael Zaransky, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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One of the first buildings to be delivered will be the 27-story multifamily tower.
—Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
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Joining the multifamily project is a public park around the perimeter of the building that could be accessed by anyone in the city, not just the residents there.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2025
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Shields declined to specify a precise use yet for the Walser House, which is flanked by multifamily housing.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
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The multifamily market led in terms of sales volume, recording $162 million last year.
—Marcus Dorsey, Idaho Statesman, 20 Mar. 2025
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That trend could leave Miami with an oversupply of multifamily housing, which could drive rents down further.
—Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
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Next on Caplan’s deregulation list are bans on multifamily housing and strict height limits in cities.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
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New single-family home construction is down, along with multifamily and home repair.
—Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 5 Nov. 2025
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In the last 15 years, the market shifted hard to multifamily construction.
—Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2024
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The fire was isolated to a three-story, multifamily building within the complex.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
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March 11 to a fire at a multifamily complex in the 2500 block of Burleson Road.
—Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
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