How to Use housing development in a Sentence

housing development

noun
  • The Hawthorne Valley green space wraps around the site of the 33-acre housing development.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The slope is on city property at the rear of a housing development built in the mid 1970s.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Kroger was one of the first stores to open in Prosper in 2016 ahead of the housing development that’s since been built.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Had it been approved, the change would have cleared the way for a housing development.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Bluffs will be one of the new housing developments built in Los Alamos.
    Time, 24 July 2023
  • Now, the latest plans for the site call for a huge housing development on the choice property.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The latter raised her alone in a housing development in a suburb south of Paris.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • San Francisco housing development in 2022 will be the year of the mega-project.
    J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The freeze was lifted in 2009, but housing development since has progressed at a crawl.
    The Arizona Republic, 31 July 2023
  • If Smith hadn’t done his thing, the place would have remained a corn and hay field or perhaps become the next housing development.
    Gabriel Popkin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The same is not true of the housing development proposal.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The plant was shuttered; the surrounding land is now a wildlife refuge abutted by a sleek housing development.
    Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The streets will be part of Lakefront North, a new 11.4-acre mixed-use housing development in Columbia.
    Allana Haynes, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2023
  • To the immediate right of the post is an empty lot, listed for sale; next over is a new housing development.
    Andrew Aoyama, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Mulcahy said the land where the motel was located may end up being the entrance to the new housing development.
    cleveland, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Now, a two-acre housing development is likely to replace the west-side grocery store.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
  • If built, the tower would be the biggest new high-rise housing development in downtown Detroit since the three Riverfront Towers opened in the 1980s.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Out in this swath of Sonoran desert, dotted with saguaro cactus and backed by rocky peaks, the fate of massive housing developments are now in question.
    Joshua Partlow, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
  • Most of the traffic is west of U.S. 287 where a network of housing developments collide with two-lane country roads and railroad tracks.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2024
  • Worley said the barrage of gunfire broke out during a large block party at a housing development in the 800 block of Gretna Court.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 2 July 2023
  • Then, in 2017, construction crews building a housing development south of Grand Rapids found mastodon bones.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Startups are looking at just about every part of the housing development process.
    NBC News, 29 Jan. 2022
  • On July 7, gang members spotted her, chased her down a path in the housing development, and riddled her with bullets.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
  • The small housing development just off Main Street in Concord is almost complete.
    Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
  • New home construction at a housing development in Queen Creek last year.
    Maanvi Singh, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The housing development would be eight stories, while the existing office building is six stories, the project plans show.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • New restaurants and cafes, as well as housing developments and highway improvements, are coming to the city.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The cost of land may slow down the pace of housing development, Bristol said, but the city is now turning to building a commercial corridor around the tollway and Highway 380.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • When the land is disturbed to create roadways or housing developments, ragweed can grow back stronger.
    Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2024
  • By taking a comprehensive approach to housing development that balances the needs of current residents with the demand for more affordable housing options, Placentia can continue to thrive as a vibrant and inclusive community.
    Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024

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