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
  • With a housing development boom in the early 2000s, the town quickly grew out of the three schools.
    Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2021
  • There are 16 short-term rentals in the Beach Plum Village housing development down the street.
    Candace Taylor, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • 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
  • But the move could hurt future housing development in an area already in dire need of more homes.
    Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 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 house, built in 2018 in the Quarry Woods housing development, includes three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a three-car garage.
    Jacques De Carbonnieres, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • 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
  • The home builder will bulldoze and pave over the property to build a housing development beginning the summer of 2021.
    Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 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
  • The agreement also means that both the housing development and the high school will have reciprocal access to the road in the event of an emergency.
    Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Now, a two-acre housing development is likely to replace the west-side grocery store.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Who knew the level of deceit behind the St. Paul mayor's veto of a vote against a housing development?
    Star Tribune, 7 June 2021
  • 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
  • Many of the housing developments are still under construction and will start renting over the next few years, while others are just now opening their doors.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
  • All the tell-tale signs of change are present: Art studios, coffee shops, a vegan bakery, a brewery, hip restaurants and pricey new housing developments popped up along the riverfront.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024

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