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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public housing

The two dissenters, the Council’s two Black members, said their constituents in public housing worry about crime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Such moments of everyday intimacy, sisterhood and friendship are absent from mainstream representations of East L.A., public housing projects and brown neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Participants either live in public housing or receive government assistance for housing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

He pledged to re-industrialise the country, push through greater public control of utilities and build more public housing, vowing to unveil a 10-year-plan later this year.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

I rode down the Dan Ryan with friends and beheld, for the first time, the State Street Corridor—a four- mile stretch of dilapidated public housing.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates