How to Use housing project in a Sentence

housing project

noun
  • The public housing project where Mr. Mehmood lives is set to be sold to a private owner.
    WSJ, 26 June 2021
  • 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
  • The city had once taken away houses to build a huge housing project.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Dowdy was the oldest of 10 kids growing up in the Roger Williams housing project in Mobile.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
  • The project is just one of a handful of off-campus student housing projects planned for the UCF area.
    Tyler Williams, Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • In March, a judge stripped the city of some of its authority to block new housing projects.
    Ethan Varian, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024
  • 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
  • In May, as Dolan went around knocking on doors at the Queens housing project, most people didn't answer.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 17 June 2024
  • Students and parents say the owner has gone silent on housing project that was supposed to open in less than a month.
    Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Behind the men and the cars is a low-slung apartment complex, maybe a housing project, painted a dull yellow.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 July 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 new housing project will be in the town of Weston, northwest of McKinney.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • But with delays in the housing project, the city has a new plan for the site — one that doesn’t get closer to a permanent solution.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2021
  • This wouldn’t be the first time Deven has worked on a student housing project in the Orlando market.
    Tyler Williams, Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • The neighborhood used to include the towers of the Cabrini-Green public housing project.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Fowle has also reached out to the Queensbridge Houses, the country’s largest public housing project.
    New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • That's being done at a housing project near the port of Los Angeles, which has very high pollution.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Chung Pak, the senior housing project that was damaged during demolition, has a past tied to the jail site.
    Mable Chan, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • That was true when Trump and his father were hit with federal race discrimination charges in the early 1970s over their housing projects.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
  • State of play: DSM will use federal funding allocated to affordable housing projects to issue the 20-year loan.
    Jason Clayworth, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024

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