social housing

noun

British

: houses or apartments that are made available to be rented at a low cost by poor people

Examples of social housing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Bardella grew up as an only child in social housing in Seine-Saint-Denis, a working-class suburb in Paris. —Christian Edwards, CNN, 27 June 2024

Up to 50% of these units will be social housing, aimed to avoid displacement of current residents while those who can afford to pay market rate help bolster the local economy, encouraging new businesses to take up leases in the area. —Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 27 June 2024

Get started for only $30 This real estate training covers property management, construction cost estimation, social housing, and much more. —Big Think, 24 June 2024

And between social housing and below-market units, 30% of the units at Jericho Lands will be designated affordable. —Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024

Residents could then work together to convert their homes into affordable social housing and either run it themselves or choose another organization to do so. —Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024

Today, according to investigative reporting by The Wall Street Journal, hydroelectric plants, social housing complexes, and schools built around the world as part of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative are literallyfalling apart, imposing vast costs on already impoverished countries. —Bill Drexel, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2023

China’s top leaders are instead refocusing the lens to address the millions of apartments that no one wants to buy, pledging to turn them into social housing at lower rents. —Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 24 May 2024

Yet in places where the population is shrinking, which are some of the same cities and towns where developers expanded most aggressively, there will be little need for social housing projects. —Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 24 May 2024