housing project

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Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor came from little in a material sense, he from tiny Pin Point, Ga., she from a Bronx tenement and later a housing project.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

One at a housing project, the other at the University of Oxford.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Westhoughton-born actress Maxine Peake was among the campaigners against it, describing it as a "housing project in golf clothing".

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

The comments left politicians around Los Angeles and California scratching their heads: what low-income housing project was the president referring to?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

The child of a Japanese mother and an African-American father, Peter and his younger sister were raised by his mother alone in a housing project in Newark during the 1950s and ’60s.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad