housing project
noun
: a publicly supported and administered housing development planned usually for low-income families
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The trial has been fraught with problems and delays and shook the rap scene in Atlanta, where Williams grew up in a housing project ridden with violence.
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CBS News, 3 Dec. 2024
From coming of age in New York City's housing projects to witnessing her mother's mental breakdown as a child, Goldberg looks back on the experiences that impacted her in this moving tribute to family.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 24 Nov. 2024
Graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) summons the urban legend boogeyman known as Candyman (Tony Todd) into existence, unleashing a torrent of pain and death against the backdrop of urban decay in a Chicago housing project.
—Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
But the East Bay’s largest city is also finding that downtown housing projects, planned and recently constructed, are in financial trouble.
—East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
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CBS News, 3 Dec. 2024
From coming of age in New York City's housing projects to witnessing her mother's mental breakdown as a child, Goldberg looks back on the experiences that impacted her in this moving tribute to family.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 24 Nov. 2024
Graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) summons the urban legend boogeyman known as Candyman (Tony Todd) into existence, unleashing a torrent of pain and death against the backdrop of urban decay in a Chicago housing project.
—Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
But the East Bay’s largest city is also finding that downtown housing projects, planned and recently constructed, are in financial trouble.
—East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Housing project.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20project. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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