The phrase "a complex of housing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group or collection of residential buildings or units that are designed for people to live in.
Example: "The new development features a complex of housing that includes apartments, townhouses, and single-family homes."
Alternatives: "a housing development" or "a residential complex".
Instead, the proposal calls for a complex of housing, restaurants, nightclubs and stores to be anchored by a large convention center and hotel along the Connecticut River.
At the Butler Houses, part of a complex of housing projects that loom over the neighborhood, police sirens provide a background soundtrack, and residents of all colors and nationalities caution against walking around at night.
The projects include a look at Arnhem Central, a complex of housing, shops and transportation in the Netherlands (tomorrow through Oct. 28) and designs for the Museum of Modern Art's space in Long Island City (the former Swingline stapler factory), which will be open during the museum's renovation from 2002 through 2005 (Nov. 2 through 11).
Wright's transpacific journeys took him to California, where he met a wealthy, demanding client, Aline Barnsdall, who about 1920 built to Wright's designs a complex of houses and studios amid gardens on an estate called Olive Hill; these now serve as the Municipal Art Gallery in Hollywood.
Newton Dee is a complex of houses, a farm, vegetable garden, shop and community centre on a former country estate on the outskirts of Aberdeen.
Archeological evidence suggests that Plutarch and Syrianus, and later Proclus, lived and worked in a complex of houses near the theatre of Dionysus along the south slope of the Acropolis (not at the site now known as the location of Plato's Academy outside the city walls).
Locals describe Manasa as a village, but it's little more than a complex of houses loosely clustered around an earthen courtyard at the end of a bumpy dirt track five hours from Yemen's capital of Sanaa.
Ethan Geto, a Toll Brothers spokesman, said a Superfund listing could torpedo its plan for a complex of 460 housing units on three acres by the canal.
They enlarged the old apartments, built a complex of town houses for the displaced residents and then sold the town houses back to the housing authority, at a profit of about $10,000.
The architect Ogden Codman designed a complex of town houses on East 96th Street in the 1910s.
The development also has a "motor sports country club" — a complex of town-house-style homes lining various parts of a winding track where visitors can race their own cars.
