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 Los Angeles, however, advocates say social housing should be permanently affordable and tenants should have a meaningful say in governance or the chance to own their properties.
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Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Voters will also have the option of supporting social housing at a lower level using existing payroll tax revenue.
—Axios Seattle, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024
Since Salar al Khafaji and Sebastiaan Visser launched it in 2021, Monumental robots has built multiple projects for top contractors in the Netherlands, including the facades of free-standing villas, social housing units, industrial buildings, and quay walls.
—Megan Carnegie, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2024
And enabling them to use special bonds to buy unsold apartments and turn them into social housing may help stabilize a downturn in real estate prices, giving homeowners a greater sense of security.
—L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
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Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Voters will also have the option of supporting social housing at a lower level using existing payroll tax revenue.
—Axios Seattle, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024
Since Salar al Khafaji and Sebastiaan Visser launched it in 2021, Monumental robots has built multiple projects for top contractors in the Netherlands, including the facades of free-standing villas, social housing units, industrial buildings, and quay walls.
—Megan Carnegie, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2024
And enabling them to use special bonds to buy unsold apartments and turn them into social housing may help stabilize a downturn in real estate prices, giving homeowners a greater sense of security.
—L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
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“Social housing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20housing. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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