housing association

British

noun

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

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The homes are usually sold through a social landlord, often a housing association.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

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

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

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.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

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

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

The restaurant is operated as the Workers' Cooperative Restaurant, Inc., and the housing association as the Finnish Homebuilders' Association, Inc.

From Consumers' Cooperative Societies in New York State by Consumers' League of New York, The

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