housing project
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Construction, Welfarehousing projectˈhousing ˌproject noun [countable] American EnglishTBCPEW a group of houses or apartments, usually built with government money, for poor familiesExamples from the Corpushousing project• He is not beyond sitting down to redesign a housing project.• The residents of the Bernal Dwellings public housing project, which the suspects had terrorized for years, won.