Different area - even different housing around city (7)
I believe the answer is:
enclave
'different area' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'even different housing around city' is the wordplay.
'different' indicates an anagram (letters placed in a different order).
'housing' indicates putting letters inside.
'around' becomes 'c' (abbreviation for 'circa').
'city' becomes 'LA' (Los Angeles).
'even' anagrammed gives 'enve'.
'c'+'la'='cla'
'enve' going around 'cla' is 'ENCLAVE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for enclave that I've seen before include "pocket" , "Enclosure" , "ghetto" , "Part of country surrounded by foreign territory" , "Valence for small territory enclosed in foreign state" .)