public housing

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of public housing¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

The company has occasionally put workers up in hotels while connecting them with public housing.

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One of those counterproductive policies was slum clearance, which paved the way for public housing.

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Firefighters and emergency responders searched into the afternoon for anyone who may have been trapped under the mounds of rubble outside the building, which is part of a public housing development in the Bronx.

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More recently, HUD reportedly planned to require all local public housing authorities to identify such families to the federal agency.

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Similarly, reggaetón developed in the working-class barrios and public housing developments of Puerto Rico.

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