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

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Example Sentences

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public housing

It takes us to places like Estrada Courts, the public housing project in Boyle Heights where my dad first lived when he came to L.A. from Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Technically, $700,000 would have been enough to buy public housing, but to keep the unit, I’d have to live there for a minimum of five years before I could rent it out.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

He had started considering a move years earlier, when he was living in public housing with a daughter he had from a prior relationship, who is now 12.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Burnham could potentially attempt to borrow to fund more public housing, but he would have to ensure this was consistent with the fiscal rules he has also said he will retain.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

In the mid-1990s, he points out, the city of Baltimore embarked on a highly publicized policy of dynamiting the old i96os-style public housing high-rises in East and West Baltimore.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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