social housing
noun
British
: houses or apartments that are made available to be rented at a low cost by poor people
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In Massachusetts, state Rep. Mike Connolly introduced legislation last year to create a $100 million fund to finance social housing projects.
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Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Plot is set against a backdrop of police negligence in the late 1990s and follows a real-life account of a woman forced to request social housing due to explicable and dangerous occurrences in her own house.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
Catch up quick: Seattle voters are considering two competing measures to help pay for the city's social housing developer, a public development authority created two years ago with the passage of Initiative 135.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
The Scale Of The Problem The roots of the U.K.’s social housing crisis run deep.
—Frank Cartwright, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
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Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Plot is set against a backdrop of police negligence in the late 1990s and follows a real-life account of a woman forced to request social housing due to explicable and dangerous occurrences in her own house.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
Catch up quick: Seattle voters are considering two competing measures to help pay for the city's social housing developer, a public development authority created two years ago with the passage of Initiative 135.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
The Scale Of The Problem The roots of the U.K.’s social housing crisis run deep.
—Frank Cartwright, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Social housing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20housing. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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