housing association

noun

1. social welfare (in Britain) a non-profit-making body whose purpose is to build, convert, or improve houses for letting at fair rents

Example Sentences

At Dinas, a few miles outside Caernarfon, Gwynedd, the Adra housing association is putting up 30 new homes.

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And now Kate, who is the chief executive of an Oxfordshire housing association, has an idea that she thinks could help the government with one of its most pressing challenges: how to empty asylum hotels by 2029.

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In outline, her plan would work like this: the government gives a council or housing association an average of £80,000 to buy and do up a property.

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It has been provided by Clanmil Housing Association which said it "utterly condemned" the intimidation and attacks on people in the Lower Oldpark.

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Built for a housing association, it was known to taxi drivers as the sardine can, and both architects and their families took flats there.

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