public housing

American  

noun

1. housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to people with low incomes.

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Etymology

Origin of public housing

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

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

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

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

Closer to home, has Mr. Mamdani visited public housing in New York?

From The Wall Street Journal

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