housing development

noun

: a group of individual dwellings or apartment houses typically of similar design that are usually built and sold or leased by one management

Examples of housing development in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Newsom’s proposal would also slash the remaining $75 million left for a program that provides loans for low income rental housing development. Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 14 May 2024 The judge is charged with deciding whether Parkland Metropolitan District No. 1 can condemn a swath of Palizzi Farm to build a stormwater project for its Bromley Farms housing development. John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 14 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for housing development 

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Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of housing development was in 1939

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“Housing development.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20development. Accessed 23 May. 2024.

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