single-family

[ sing-guhl-fam-uh-lee, -fam-lee ]

adjective

1. designed or suitable for one family of average size:

   single-family homes.

Example Sentences

The incentives would apply in single-family zones only if a property is owned by a public agency or a faith-based organization, which accounts for just a sliver of the city’s single-family lots.

From Los Angeles Times

In addition to considering a single-family home, the research also examined how well the technology would work in the lobby of a small hotel, a medium-size office building, and hospital patient rooms.

From Science Daily

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.

From Los Angeles Times

They also want building incentives to apply to high-opportunity single-family zones like those in Westwood and Studio City.

From Los Angeles Times

Now a member of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, she is advocating for low-income housing in single-family neighborhoods near good jobs and schools.

From Los Angeles Times