housing(HOMES)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Houses & homes
A-frame
ADU
affordable housing
almshouse
apartment
dormitory
dosshouse
dower house
duplex
efficiency
multifamily
Nissen hut
non-housing
old people's home
palace
town house
townhouse
tract house
trap house
two-up two-down

public housing | Business English

public housing
noun[ U ]
 GOVERNMENT, PROPERTYukus
→ social housing

Examples of public housing

public housing
No sign demarcates the area as publichousing.
Effects of health and income on control orientation and life satisfaction among aged publichousing residents.
In 1962 a local form of urban renewal which involved building publichousing was rejected by the electorate.
In his visits to and walks around allotments, publichousing projects and wasteland, he took photographs, drew maps and interviewed inhabitants or users of space.
The remaining 43 % are in four-room and five-room publichousing and with only 6 % in private housing.
Today, privatisation and dwindling state involvement clearly emphasise the end of utopian publichousing schemes.
She writes about the history of the publichousing, the ideology behind it and its significance.
The post-war era witnessed a massive housing drive, with publichousing in particular increasing its share of the housing stock.
Its devotion to the cause of publichousing was unparalleled elsewhere in the country.
Eighty-three women (76 per cent) were selected from a publichousing estate and 26 from an adjoining private estate (24 per cent).
Families may have to stay in these premises for several years whilst waiting for places in publichousing.
Municipal land ownership stipulated high leases for upper class villas, thus compensating the low leases for publichousing.
That it is for a publichousing project is even more surprising these days.
Psychosocial determinants of alcohol use among minority youth living in publichousing developments.
These are critical issues in the search for a residential design strategy after the modern publichousing era.
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