How to Use housing project in a Sentence

housing project

noun

• 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
• 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
• After World War II, the land was selected for a big federal public housing project.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Dowdy was the oldest of 10 kids growing up in the Roger Williams housing project in Mobile.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• Washington County took six months to issue all of the permits for the Cedar Mill church’s housing project.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024