How to Use housing project in a Sentence
housing project
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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
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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
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After World War II, the land was selected for a big federal public housing project.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
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American tale takes us from a housing project to Ebenezer Baptist, once King’s home pulpit, and now the halls of Congress.
—Tammy Joyner, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
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He was raised in public housing project in Savannah by his father, a veteran and preacher, and his mother, according to his campaign website.
—Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
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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
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The housing project has moved ahead in spite of the lawsuit, Jackson said.
—Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Washington County took six months to issue all of the permits for the Cedar Mill church’s housing project.
—oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Rick Fox, a former Los Angeles Lakers player, is the lynchpin of the new housing project.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Immigrants and French of largely North African origin who live in housing projects stoked most of the violence.
—Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 2 July 2023
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The place looks like a cross between a prison and a housing project, with blind corners where nasty surprises can catch characters off-guard.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
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As at most high-rise public housing projects, the towers are set in the middle of a superblock, isolating them from the neighborhood and killing street life.
—Curbed, 9 Jan. 2024
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At the Charlotte Court housing project in Lexington, Kentucky, the apartment complexes were all the same, the front yards bare dirt with patches of grass.
—Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
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Police said at the time of the slaying that Kollack was forced to strip naked before he was robbed of his jewelry and was fatally shot at the housing project.
—Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2023
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For years, the church had been planning to do a housing project, and, on account of local zoning rules, had proposed 31 single units that would be spread across its grounds.
—Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
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Jackson has said Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail has no ability to pay for the rail line and that the housing project has moved ahead in spite of the lawsuit.
—Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 22 Aug. 2023
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