What Does Projects Mean?

A project is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim.

What does projects mean in slang?

A project or more commonly the projects is a slang term in American English referring to government owned housing for low income residents.

What does living in the projects mean?

"The projects" = "public housing projects" for low income residents. These can sometimes be dangerous, high crime rate places to live, which is why the character is saying she "doesn't scare too easily".

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