How to Use low-income housing in a Sentence

low-income housing

noun
  • Elk Grove is taking steps forward to add more low-income housing to the area.
    Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This is one of the first times, though, that the GOP has been so vocal in opposing low-income housing.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
  • We’re scheduled to meet at Cox’s row house, across the street from a low-income housing project on a hip Brooklyn block.
    Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2023
  • It's got the Taiwan agreements, and it's got a boost in the low-income housing tax credit program.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In May, the project received over $12 million in low-income housing tax credits.
    Megan Sims, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There’s still the task of getting cities long wary of approving any kind of housing — let alone low-income housing — to sign off on these projects.
    Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
  • That’s because over the last year, the city has helped fund conversions of hotels into low-income housing.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The 8 percent standard comes from a state law meant to encourage low-income housing.
    Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • Elo-Rivera tried to amend that part of proposal to restrict where the low-income housing could be built, but the council deadlocked 4-4 on his amendment.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The development will be funded with the help of low-income housing tax credits.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Fred took a job as a maintenance man for the county, installing plumbing in low-income housing and mowing the fairgrounds.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Bluffdale has done a good job in offering low-income housing.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The final version of the bill shifted some money that had been targeted for homeless programs to funds for low-income housing.
    Byscott Sonner, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • Homelessness found the city needs 2,478 low-income housing units to alleviate the housing gap.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • Most of the more than 600 properties financed with low-income housing tax credits in Arizona have not gone through the qualified contract process.
    Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Three coming hotel conversions are slated to open 226 units of low-income housing over the next several months.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Hundreds of millions of dollars in support for home purchases and low-income housing.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • With that, the private market had very little reason to develop low-income housing.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • But now Reid is uncertain, because SVB was going to buy low-income housing tax credits for the project and help provide financing.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Wealthy Abigail organizes fundraisers for low-income housing, but now finds her own house reduced to ashes.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The current plan is to utilize 4% non-competitive low-income housing tax credits and debt funding.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • The filing is part of the original 2020 lawsuit where Chace and his real estate firm Cornish Associates sought tax breaks under a state law meant for low-income housing.
    Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Not only are the victims as likely to be in a gated community as a low-income housing complex, the search warrants are just as likely to be issued for people in both.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Kushel said the findings point to the increasing demands for adequate mental health and addiction treatment — and more low-income housing.
    Angela Hart, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
  • Of the funds expended, about $22 million went toward extremely low-income housing projects.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • California has been fairly successful at getting developers to build low-income housing in recent years but a new law aims to do the same for the middle of the market.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Sage Johnson, 28, was homeless in Los Angeles and lived for years in shelters before getting into low-income housing.
    Angela Hart, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
  • Half of the residential units in the development would have to be for people with moderate incomes, 40% would have to be composed of low-income housing and 10% could be used for church staff or other workers.
    The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Local demonstrators with a bullhorn occupied the dais to demand low-income housing in Cambridge.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 23 May 2024
  • After a group sued over Huntington Beach’s refusal to include enough low-income housing, the city ultimately agreed to add more but fought an order to pay the group more than $3.5 million in attorneys’ fees.
    Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024

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