How to Use housing project in a Sentence

housing project

noun
  • Odom lived in the housing project across the park where she was found dead.
    — Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The funds are drawn from the city’s housing project reserve.
    — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • At that age, boys from his housing project are more likely to join a crew.
    — Christina Barron, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • The city had once taken away houses to build a huge housing project.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • More than a dozen major housing projects are also in progress.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The name stuck but the housing project failed when the 1880s boom turned to bust.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 June 2018
  • Williams grew up twelve miles to the south, in an Atlanta housing project that has since been razed.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • There are $4 million brownstones across the street from housing projects.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The housing project has moved ahead in spite of the lawsuit, Jackson said.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
  • Over the course of two years, the agency designed and planned over 80 housing projects.
    — Eran Ben-Joseph, The Conversation, 19 May 2025
  • Still, the resource gap for affordable housing projects is present.
    — Jake Ramsey, Oklahoma Watch, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Sweet was born in a Detroit housing project and grew up in Cincinnati.
    — Christopher Quinn, ajc, 11 June 2020
  • Here’s details on some of the other housing projects coming to the region.
    — Charlotte Observer, 25 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Mobb Deep, huddled with friends on the rooftop of a Queensbridge housing project.
    — New York Times, 29 May 2021
  • Students and parents say the owner has gone silent on housing project that was supposed to open in less than a month.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The elder Blake had led protest marches for fair housing laws, and a housing project there is named for him.
    — Casey Tolan, CNN, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The land is scheduled to become an affordable housing project.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The land is scheduled to become an affordable housing project.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Children from the Watts housing projects will be able to see the film this Saturday.
    — Sydney Scott, Essence.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The men are lifelong friends, having grown up together in a rough Bronx housing project.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The men are lifelong friends, having grown up together in a rough Bronx housing project.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • At its peak, the city of Vanport was the nation’s largest shipbuilding housing project.
    — oregonlive, 12 May 2021
  • Illinois has seen several affordable housing projects built, but the process is slow, and there aren’t enough units.
    — Jeremy Wolff, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • The tax would have raised about $50 million a year to help the homeless and fund affordable housing projects.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
  • The other, Zion Cemetery, was found beneath a housing project.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Large-scale infrastructure and housing projects financed through state bonds need stronger oversight.
    — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Places like community swimming pools and housing projects.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026

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