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public housing
noun
- 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
Example Sentences
He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.
And yet, as we knocked on the doors in the public housing projects, big picture political ideology was never mentioned.
Pre-Giuliani Gotham had separate police forces for public housing and the subways, as well as the NYPD.
She fought to survive with welfare checks and public housing until she one day figured out a way to turn her life around.
Danny, the only child of Su Zhen, a seamstress, and Yan Tao, a chef, lived in public housing on the Lower East Side.
Continuation of the public housing program adopted in the Housing Act of 1949.
It's time that all public housing residents have that opportunity of ownership.
Our administration is already encouraging certain low-income public housing residents to own and manage their own dwellings.
It also means tenant control and ownership of public housing.
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