How to Use housing development in a Sentence

housing development

noun
  • But the quarry where they were found is now part of a housing development.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 July 2019
  • The area is one of homes on large lots and not far from a housing development and historic farm.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Had it been approved, the change would have cleared the way for a housing development.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Check out other housing developments done by that builder and ask around there.
    — James Pilcher, Cincinnati.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • But the move could hurt future housing development in an area already in dire need of more homes.
    — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2021
  • Quatro had buried himself in a mass of para grass right next to a housing development and a golf course.
    — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
  • Is shooting them in the middle of a housing development the best idea?
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Today, new housing developments line the broad highway all the way to the lake.
    — Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
  • April was a busy month for new housing developments and rentals in the Charlotte metro area.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2025
  • There has also been an increase in housing developments in the area.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
  • As if on cue, the warm months brought a surge in shootings in the city’s public-housing developments.
    — Elizabeth Glazer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • His home was demolished decades ago, though there’s a plaque with his name on it at a new housing development there.
    — Rodney Jefferson, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Years after the woman’s death, a housing development is about to break ground right around where the body’s buried.
    — Lauren Hill, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Now, the latest plans for the site call for a huge housing development on the choice property.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The latter raised her alone in a housing development in a suburb south of Paris.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Thousands of new homes coming The two housing developments are still five or so years out.
    — Riley Murdock, azcentral, 22 June 2019
  • Over the past few years, co-living housing developments have sprung up in major cities across the country.
    — J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 6 July 2019
  • Grand and lonely, strip malls and housing developments.
    — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Kline lives in one of those new housing developments, and the Timex property is right across the street.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2026
  • It was being billed as a 55-and-over housing development for older adults.
    — Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The plant was shuttered; the surrounding land is now a wildlife refuge abutted by a sleek housing development.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Tallgrass is the second major housing development announced in the city in the past four months.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But many of these housing developments are priced beyond what most first-time homebuyers can afford.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • To the immediate right of the post is an empty lot, listed for sale; next over is a new housing development.
    — Andrew Aoyama, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The Bluffs will be one of the new housing developments built in Los Alamos.
    — Time, 24 July 2023
  • Fans of the eagles are worried about their future and raising money to stop a housing development.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • If Smith hadn’t done his thing, the place would have remained a corn and hay field or perhaps become the next housing development.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The slope is on city property at the rear of a housing development built in the mid 1970s.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Residents of the new housing developments have not had any issues with the airport as far as Handt knows.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 24 June 2019
  • With a housing development boom in the early 2000s, the town quickly grew out of the three schools.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2021

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