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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
housing project
noun
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▪ A riot in a drab housing project outside Paris leaves one participant on his deathbed, a victim of police brutality.
▪ 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.
WordNet
housing project

n. a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families [syn: public housing]

Wikipedia
Housing Project (album)

Housing Project is John Hartford's fourth album, released in 1968. Like all of his RCA recordings, it was reissued in 2002 as part of a "twofer" CD, combined with his third album, The Love Album.

Usage examples of "housing project".

On Friday night you will find them sharing quarts of sweet Key Largo in the darkness of some playground in the housing project.

Scott housing project lined the sidewalks to throw rocks and bottles and epithets at passing cars.

They make forty dollars a week and wouldn't be allowed into a housing project.

There was a low-cost housing project being constructed in Dallas and a block of condominiums in Los Angeles.

The entrance was located near a large fountain that had survived the razing of the previous housing project on the site.

Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas.

Yes, they had already provided help for the housing project in California which was being turned into a war zone by local drug dealers.

Washington Housing Project was 14% higher than the Trafficante organization’.

Washington Housing Project was 14% higher than the Trafficante organizations best month ever.