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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Huang has called for more public housing and for a reduction in the number of police officers, with the cost savings poured into other city services.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026

For the answer, Chetty and his team looked to a government experiment that started over 30 years ago to demolish and replace rundown public housing projects with housing that had mixed-income levels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

For New Yorkers that live in public housing and want the credits available to them, they also need to come with paperwork from their buildings.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

Housing a music studio, among other things, it sits near Marsh Farm, a once-notoriously deprived public housing complex where US-born Tate grew up.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

When she moved from public housing to a three-bedroom home in a suburban area in the Northwood section of town, she was trying to create more distance between her and the city’s imploding center.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore