subdivision
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Who knew the proverb holds even when the classroom is a subdivision and the teacher is a real-estate developer?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Craftsman-style subdivision, built on a former school site, was newly completed and mostly sold when the Eaton fire destroyed seven of its 16 homes and rendered the rest uninhabitable.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
"This reflects a complex history of population subdivision, in which different populations lived in different regions and habitat types."
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
Neighbors rode bikes and walked the streets of the desert subdivision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Jim Link grew up in a Houston subdivision, Bellaire, in a house where his parents have lived for thirty-four years.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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Housing reforms that increase supply, such as allowing smaller lots in new subdivisions, permitting duplexes, townhomes, and backyard cottages on existing lots, and changing zoning laws to allow housing nearer to jobs, are land-use issues.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
In 2025, Texas passed bills legalizing housing on commercially zoned land and subdivisions of starter homes, which were rendered difficult or illegal to build by municipal zoning laws, large lot requirements, or other design requirements.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Sometimes, he will drive elderly people from their homes in the subdivisions outside Santa Fe to doctors appointments and grocery stores for a minimum of $30.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
New subdivisions and apartment buildings are rising around Appleton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
And the methods of transport through these new subdivisions, across the sprawl, is the automobile, the noose around the neck of the earth, and ultimately, the Dreamers themselves.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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