housing development
noun
: a group of individual dwellings or apartment houses typically of similar design that are usually built and sold or leased by one management
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web University Hills, a housing development built for full-time faculty and other eligible employees that features 1,226 for-sale homes and 384 rental apartments. 
Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022 In 1990, there was already substantial housing development in the fire-prone Sierra foothills. Brad Plumer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022 In the long term, the property along Federal Highway in north Delray Beach will likely be transformed into a housing development. Wells Dusenbury, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022 In 2017, construction workers found mastodon bones at a housing development in Byron Center, south of Grand Rapids. Layla Mcmurtrie, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2022 In 2017, construction workers found mastodon bones at a housing development in Byron Center, south of Grand Rapids. Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2022 The church property, and the northern end of the mall property, abuts Marrus Lane and Marrus Circle, a housing development that was constructed beginning in 2005 and completed about four years ago. cleveland, 10 Aug. 2022 One of the Bay Area’s few remaining roller skating rinks, which had been set to close permanently this month — and eventually be razed and replaced by a housing development — will remain open indefinitely, its owner said Tuesday. Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 2022 That should have been enough, but Vulcan and other big developers signed up for a deal, then called the Grand Bargain, that would impose the fee regime on all new housing development. Roger Valdez, Forbes, 5 July 2022 See More
Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022 In 1990, there was already substantial housing development in the fire-prone Sierra foothills. Brad Plumer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022 In the long term, the property along Federal Highway in north Delray Beach will likely be transformed into a housing development. Wells Dusenbury, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022 In 2017, construction workers found mastodon bones at a housing development in Byron Center, south of Grand Rapids. Layla Mcmurtrie, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2022 In 2017, construction workers found mastodon bones at a housing development in Byron Center, south of Grand Rapids. Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2022 The church property, and the northern end of the mall property, abuts Marrus Lane and Marrus Circle, a housing development that was constructed beginning in 2005 and completed about four years ago. cleveland, 10 Aug. 2022 One of the Bay Area’s few remaining roller skating rinks, which had been set to close permanently this month — and eventually be razed and replaced by a housing development — will remain open indefinitely, its owner said Tuesday. Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 2022 That should have been enough, but Vulcan and other big developers signed up for a deal, then called the Grand Bargain, that would impose the fee regime on all new housing development. Roger Valdez, Forbes, 5 July 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1939, in the meaning defined above