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PUBLIC HOUSING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does public housing mean?
• PUBLIC HOUSING (noun)
The noun PUBLIC HOUSING has 1 sense:
1. a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families
Familiarity information: PUBLIC HOUSING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
housing project; public housing
Hypernyms ("public housing" is a kind of...):
housing development (a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management)
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