WordNet
n. a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management; "they live in the new housing development"
Wikipedia
A housing development is a structured real estate development of residential buildings. Popular throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, they are often areas of high-density, low-impact residences of single-family detached homes, and often allow for separate ownership of each housing unit, for example through subdivision.
Usage examples of "housing development".
This is more likely to be true among suburban homeowners than among housing development residents.
Yeager and Glennis and their four children had lived at Victorville in the same sort of housing development you found in Lancaster.
The other houses, which looked not unlike a lower-middleclass housing development, had much smaller lots and one-car carports.
We saw a housing development down at the other end of this drainage ditch and we came back.
There might have been a housing development behind the next set of ridges.
A few of the eating places that dotted the road were still lighted, but the other places of business were dark, the gas stations faint glows with the single light in the office burning, Off to the north, the twinkling glimmer of street lights swaying in the wind marked a suburban housing development off the highway.
Route 50 between Washington and Annapolis, and was adjacent to a large housing development, from which it drew much of its business.
Three hundred yards behind him and to the southwest, beyond the small woods, the darkness was relieved by the light of a housing development.
Old Cape was a low-income housing development, and the drainage was so bad over there that there were stories of toilets and sewer-pipes actually exploding.