The phrase "tract home" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a type of residential property that is part of a larger development, often characterized by similar designs and layouts.
Example: "The new neighborhood features a variety of tract homes, making it an affordable option for first-time buyers."
Alternatives: "subdivision home" or "cookie-cutter house".
Thornton's California cousins lived in a tract home in Menifee, which locals call Dirttown.
"This is real stucco," said Ms. Lucini, a retired tract home developer from Northern California.
An article in The New York Times called Maricopa a "boomtown mirage" in 2008 as tract home after tract home began to go into foreclosure.
Actually, they fail to have adventures, and mostly hang around their rundown Jersey tract home and bicker instead.
We moved into a small, pink and brown 1950s tract home at the end of a cul-de-sac.
And in a unique way, cicadas are a victim of suburban sprawl: every new Wal-Mart, tract home, highway, parking lot and tennis court entombs some cicadas forever.
This leaves open the possibility that we may soon be grappling with concepts like "tract-home cocooning," "time-share cocooning," "split-level cocooning" and "McMansion cocooning".
The son of a tract-home and shopping-center builder, Tierwater is destined for an ordinary suburban life, tooling around in a gas guzzler, furthering suburban sprawl.
The Kaufman & Broad tract-home model, which Broad labelled the Award Winner, was priced at $13,740, and the company sold fourteen houses the first weekend.
The clowns, kittens, ballerinas, cowboys, New England landscapes, Pacific seascapes and Parisian cityscapes rendered by the ubiquitous hobbyists of the 1950's coincided with the dawn of tract-home civilization.
In his 1996 memoir, "Holy Land," for instance, D. J. Waldie writes affectionately about Lakewood, Calif., his native city and one of the many anonymous tract-home developments that sprang up like desert wildflowers in the 1950's.
