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

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

Yes, many more deadbeats, and even the public housing authority is pleading for relief.

From The Wall Street Journal

“A much greater proportion of people in Scotland in the 1970s lived in public housing—schemes they’re called—than elsewhere in . . . the free countries of Europe.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Those were the last words Mr Chung said to his wife after a huge fire broke out in their high rise public housing complex in Hong Kong's Tai Po district.

From BBC