How to Use social housing in a Sentence

social housing

noun
  • Then there has to be enough social housing.
    — Kristen Edgreen Kaufman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Here’s what this could mean for the future of social housing.
    — Frank Cartwright, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • She was brought up in social housing and left school at 16 as a teen mother.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • 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
  • For years even before the crash, there had been a shift away from social housing built by local authorities and more of a reliance on the market.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • In a city in the south of France, a social housing development project broke ground — then unearthed pieces of history.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Two previous social housing bills by Lee have failed to pass the Legislature.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Containing 12 social housing apartments spread across three floors, the project's printing process was carried out in just 34 days.
    — Adam Williams may 28, New Atlas, 28 May 2026
  • Nadia Bey, who lives in a social housing high-rise just a couple of blocks away was doubtful that the Olympic investments would improve her life.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The only thing that might truly be sufficient is a massive investment at every level of government in social housing.
    — Rachel Cohen, Vox, 25 Mar. 2025
  • For social tenants, there’s protection against these high prices, thanks to a 2020 agreement signed between the town hall and social housing groups.
    — Anne Pouzargues, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Apartments meant for social housing were handed to a select few with a condition for unquestionable obedience.
    — Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Imagine mixed-income, accessible and welcome social housing built along transit lines — run by the city, not corporate landlords.
    — Cole Hanson, Twin Cities, 30 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The nearby stock of dilapidated social housing is being revamped.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • There should be more housing owned directly by the city, county, or state, as well as more land trust housing, cooperative housing, and other forms of social housing.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Without access to affordable social housing, young people today have no choice but to fall back on their parents, particularly in times of trouble.
    — Kitty Grady, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Mamdani has expressed his desire for a social housing system like in Vienna or Singapore.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
  • 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
  • Another social housing project, Robin Hood Gardens remains among the pair’s most notable buildings.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Set in a dystopian London where all social housing has been banned, the film follows the residents of a community called the Kitchen who must fight to save their home.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cities like Seattle, which recently voted to fund a social housing developer, are choosing differently, and that gives me hope.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Other points in the agreement include increasing social housing, stricter sentences for serious crimes and capping property taxes.
    — TIME, 16 May 2024
  • West Chin, 56, a residential architect, was born in the Bronx, where his father was an architect of social housing.
    — Craig Kellogg Ashok Sinha, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • Key points include funding to increase affordable, social housing and financial support for private households building climate neutral homes.
    — Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 23 July 2024
  • The original experiment exposed four belugas to the mirror together, in their usual social housing.
    — Federica Sgorbissa, ArsTechnica, 24 May 2026

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