- present participle of house.
housing
Example Sentences
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You’ll pay entrance fees of at least $100,000 and sometimes over $1 million, on top of monthly fees for housing and amenities.
From Barron's • Jun. 20, 2026
The politician set to remain as Jersey's chief minister has pledged to help tackle the cost of living, encourage more investment and continue increasing housing supply.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026
As a result, many working-class Korean and Latino immigrant households lived side by side and often confronted similar challenges, including substandard housing conditions, landlord abuses and underfunded public schools.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026
In the future, Jacoby wants people to look beyond measuring failure rates—recidivism—to looking at “success metrics”: “How many people that come home have stable housing within 90 days?” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
These databases are then used by police and prosecutors, as well as by employers and housing officials—an electronic record that will haunt many for life.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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