public housing
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2.2
- noun
- /ˈpʌblɪk ˈhaʊzɪŋ/
- US
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vivienda pública
- The city is building more public housing to help families in need.
- a public housing project
- public housing residents
- public housing units
We don't have enough psychiatric beds or public housing in the United States.
- We don't have enough psychiatric beds or public housing in the United States.
- The standard of public housing has not been challenged.
- This is a conversation we once had when as a society, we still spoke openly of public housing, public funding, public planning, and the public good.
- I am all for building palatial like mass levels of public housing.
- Are they single moms or struggling financially in public housing And they they don't feel they have a way out.
- And the biggest impact is public housing gets flooded first and, and, and with poor services.
- So this, this example works really well if it's like, if you think about say, public housing, right?
- Jean Novell says all of the housing, public housing built in the Bundlia are just bad buildings.
Examples
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The average income of public-housing residents is a mere 17 percent of the national median.
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Experts speculate that there is a large population of people living in public housing units that go unreported.
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So everybody has good housing, good public housing and they own it.
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The standard of public housing has not been challenged.
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There are two logical ways to address the public housing system in its present state.
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Well, we're looking at new and innovative ways to provide affordable public housing in the inner city.
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The city razed much of its public housing without first making arrangements for those being displaced.
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Currently, some 70 percent of public-housing residents move out over a 10-year period.
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Ninety percent of Belfast's public housing is segregated on religious grounds.
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Preservice teachers mentored and tutored underprivileged African American youths from public housing and also made home visits.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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2.6
A group of homes or apartment buildings that the government builds and runs for low-income families
5
3.1
Homes that the government or a group helps pay for so they cost less for people
How Publicly Funded
- US
29
2.6
- US
41
2.2
- US
5
3.1
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2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'housing provided and managed by the government' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'public' (non-private, government-related or for everyone) with 'housing' (accommodation). This noun–noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Public housing comes from the idea of homes built and owned by the public, meaning the government, to give housing to people who cannot pay for private rent. Because these homes were paid for and run by the government, the phrase now means 'housing provided and managed by the government', usually for people with low incomes.