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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She was brought up in social housing and left school at 16 as a teen mother. — ABC News, 14 May 2026 Each of the dozen social housing apartments also comes with its own balcony. — Adam Williams may 28, New Atlas, 28 May 2026 Policy experts would call it public housing or social housing. — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026 Mamdani has expressed his desire for a social housing system like in Vienna or Singapore. — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for social housing

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