Went back to centre of city with altered housing (9)

I believe the answer is:

revisited

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'went back' is the definition.
(revisiting is a kind of going back)

'centre of city with altered housing' is the wordplay.
'centre of' means to look at the middle letters.
'with altered' becomes 'revised' ('revised' can be similar in meaning to 'altered'. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.**).
'housing' indicates putting letters inside.
The centre of 'city' is 'it'.
'it' put into 'revised' is 'REVISITED'.

'to' is the link.

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