How to Use housing project in a Sentence

housing project

noun

• One of the boys lived in the same housing project as Seck.
  — John Leicester, Sylvie Corbet and Lewis Joly, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
• The housing project has moved ahead in spite of the lawsuit, Jackson said.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
• Dowdy was the oldest of 10 kids growing up in the Roger Williams housing project in Mobile.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 10 June 2023
• Mangum, who works for a housing project in Portland and as a counselor for at-risk youth, refused to leave.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2022
• The land was completely in public hands by 1943, meant for a housing project that was never built.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Washington County took six months to issue all of the permits for the Cedar Mill church’s housing project.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
• The compost site is one of nine that Mr. Morales has started since Mr. Buckel’s death, eight of them at public housing projects.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Growing up as the child of a single mother on welfare and living in a housing project, there was no piano in my house.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
• In one stroke, the move transformed public housing projects from a drain into an asset and turned on the taps of money from private sources.
  — Curbed, 9 Jan. 2024
• Rick Fox, a former Los Angeles Lakers player, is the lynchpin of the new housing project.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
• In the summer of 2020, Bor remembers having an outdoor BBQ with a friend who grew up in a low-income housing project.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 21 July 2022
• In fact, the movie explores subjects of both race relations and social class, set in a housing project in Chicago.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
• More than two dozen high-rise buildings stretching over two miles, the Robert Taylor Homes were once the country's largest public housing project.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2022
• The Tams had immigrated from Hong Kong only a few years earlier and lived in a Charlestown housing project.
  — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
• Immigrants and French of largely North African origin who live in housing projects stoked most of the violence.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 2 July 2023
• The place looks like a cross between a prison and a housing project, with blind corners where nasty surprises can catch characters off-guard.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
• As at most high-rise public housing projects, the towers are set in the middle of a superblock, isolating them from the neighborhood and killing street life.
  — Curbed, 9 Jan. 2024
• At the Charlotte Court housing project in Lexington, Kentucky, the apartment complexes were all the same, the front yards bare dirt with patches of grass.
  — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
• Police said at the time of the slaying that Kollack was forced to strip naked before he was robbed of his jewelry and was fatally shot at the housing project.
  — Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2023
• Jackson has said Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail has no ability to pay for the rail line and that the housing project has moved ahead in spite of the lawsuit.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 22 Aug. 2023
• For those trying to inhabit Helen Buckler’s dream, the two enormous housing projects were a truth hidden in plain sight.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Government funding has been announced for housing projects in Edgewood and Havre de Grace.
  — Jason Fontelieu, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2023
• An association with the Seven Crowns would have given Adams—who wasn’t from a housing project, and was bused eight miles north to school—some local standing.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Dani and Albert live in an affluent neighborhood and attend a prep school; Lala lives in a housing project and attends public school.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• The eighth-grader, who is not related to Deni Henson, lives in a ground-floor apartment at Harbour House, a housing project that has no water views despite its name.
  — Joanna Daemmrich, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
• In 1956, the first large-scale clinical trial of birth control pills was conducted on poor women in a San Juan housing project, who were not fully informed of their role in the study or the safety of the pill.
  — USA Today, 11 Aug. 2022
• The development proposal envisions the demolition of the two office buildings to clear the way for the housing project.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Fewer and fewer new housing projects are being started.
  — Claire Fu, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• The new homeless housing projects would have on-site services to connect residents with mental health care or drug counseling.
  — Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
• The district also plans to include the housing project in a district bond in 2024, which would need voter approval and may require the college to add market-rate units to the mix to generate enough revenue.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024