multifamily

[ muhl-tee-fam-uh-lee, -fam-lee, muhl-tahy- ]

adjective

1. designed or suitable for the use of several or many families:

   multifamily apartment buildings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of multifamily¹

multi- + family

Example Sentences

Patricia Carroll, a resident of St. Andrews Square in central L.A., told the committee that though she lives in a multifamily area, she enjoys walking through nearby neighborhoods filled with single family houses, grass and trees.

From Los Angeles Times

Some tenant advocates feared that by opening up existing multifamily areas to significant new development, it would cause a wave of displacement as existing buildings are knocked down.

From Los Angeles Times

Officials are proposing to do so on land already zoned for multifamily housing, where people tend to be renters, not in neighborhoods zoned for single-family houses where people tend to own.

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Instead, the majority of parcels that fall under the proposed incentives are located in residential neighborhoods currently zoned for multifamily.

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Overall, those factors are reasons the planning department expects most new units to be built in commercial zones even if most parcels subject to incentives would be in residential multifamily neighborhoods.

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