public housing

NOUN

affordable housing

Synonyms

WEAK

low-and-middle-income housing low-cost housing market-rate housing public-sector housing

Example Sentences

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“A much greater proportion of people in Scotland in the 1970s lived in public housing—schemes they’re called—than elsewhere in . . . the free countries of Europe.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Those were the last words Mr Chung said to his wife after a huge fire broke out in their high rise public housing complex in Hong Kong's Tai Po district.

From BBC

Murphy’s extravagant abode is a far cry from his very humble upbringing in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was raised in public housing by his telephone operator mother, Lillian Laney, and police officer dad, Charles Murphy.

From MarketWatch

She’s got plenty of ideas about how to spend the tax revenue, from free day care to more public housing.

From The Wall Street Journal

The company has occasionally put workers up in hotels while connecting them with public housing.

From The Wall Street Journal