How to Use low-income housing in a Sentence

low-income housing

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Definition of low-income housingnext
  • Elk Grove is taking steps forward to add more low-income housing to the area.
    — Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This is one of the first times, though, that the GOP has been so vocal in opposing low-income housing.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
  • We’re scheduled to meet at Cox’s row house, across the street from a low-income housing project on a hip Brooklyn block.
    — Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2023
  • It's got the Taiwan agreements, and it's got a boost in the low-income housing tax credit program.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In May, the project received over $12 million in low-income housing tax credits.
    — Megan Sims, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There’s still the task of getting cities long wary of approving any kind of housing — let alone low-income housing — to sign off on these projects.
    — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
  • The new multiple dwellings will not be low-income housing but market-rate rentals.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 June 2024
  • That’s because over the last year, the city has helped fund conversions of hotels into low-income housing.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The 8 percent standard comes from a state law meant to encourage low-income housing.
    — Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • But there has been far less growth in the less lucrative sector of affordable and low-income housing.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2024
  • Elo-Rivera tried to amend that part of proposal to restrict where the low-income housing could be built, but the council deadlocked 4-4 on his amendment.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The building was used for low-income housing before it was vacated in 2008.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The development will be funded with the help of low-income housing tax credits.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Mobile homes and low-income housing are prevalent in fire-prone areas.
    — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Fred took a job as a maintenance man for the county, installing plumbing in low-income housing and mowing the fairgrounds.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Bluffdale has done a good job in offering low-income housing.
    — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The mayor likened the struggle to fulfill the goal of bringing low-income housing to those neighborhoods to the segregationist South of decades ago.
    — Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 29 July 2024
  • The final version of the bill shifted some money that had been targeted for homeless programs to funds for low-income housing.
    — Byscott Sonner, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • That state agency made available to the developers low-income housing tax credits to fund the bulk of the development.
    — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2024
  • Homelessness found the city needs 2,478 low-income housing units to alleviate the housing gap.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • Most of the more than 600 properties financed with low-income housing tax credits in Arizona have not gone through the qualified contract process.
    — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Three coming hotel conversions are slated to open 226 units of low-income housing over the next several months.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Hundreds of millions of dollars in support for home purchases and low-income housing.
    — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • With that, the private market had very little reason to develop low-income housing.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • But now Reid is uncertain, because SVB was going to buy low-income housing tax credits for the project and help provide financing.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Wealthy Abigail organizes fundraisers for low-income housing, but now finds her own house reduced to ashes.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The current plan is to utilize 4% non-competitive low-income housing tax credits and debt funding.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • The filing is part of the original 2020 lawsuit where Chace and his real estate firm Cornish Associates sought tax breaks under a state law meant for low-income housing.
    — Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Not only are the victims as likely to be in a gated community as a low-income housing complex, the search warrants are just as likely to be issued for people in both.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The moves have been criticized for ultimately hindering efforts to build more affordable housing and leaving low-income housing in the balance, according to local news outlets.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025

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