housing project

noun

: a publicly supported and administered housing development planned usually for low-income families

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The affordable housing project will take over part of the parking lot at the Costa Mesa Senior Center at 19th Street and Pomona Avenue. Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 24 Mar. 2025 How to Address Them: Collaborative Funding and Partnerships: Leverage federal and state grants, local bonds, and public–private partnerships to finance necessary infrastructure and housing projects. Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025 The first is building the NYC Affordability Fund: This fund, operating within the ETI framework of our pension system, will strategically invest in affordable housing projects across our five boroughs — improving existing units and constructing new ones. Mark Levine, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025 Habitat 67 in Canada Architect Moshe Safdie's Habitat 67 in Montreal, completed in 1967, is one of the world's most distinctive brutalist housing projects. Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for housing project

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First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of housing project was in 1900

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“Housing project.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20project. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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