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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Clancy said efforts to expand support for cooperative and social housing have faced resistance in the Legislature, including his recent proposal aimed at opening state funding to housing cooperatives.
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Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 8 Jan. 2026
As if to offset this blind spot, visitors can find architectural plans showing the formal conversion of Hotel Cambridge’s rooms into social housing.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Many other governments have cultivated less bulky, more elegantly designed, and more innovative versions of social housing and discovered that raising the level of design doesn’t mean sacrificing density, living standards, speed, or affordability.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Dec. 2025
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
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Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 8 Jan. 2026
As if to offset this blind spot, visitors can find architectural plans showing the formal conversion of Hotel Cambridge’s rooms into social housing.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Many other governments have cultivated less bulky, more elegantly designed, and more innovative versions of social housing and discovered that raising the level of design doesn’t mean sacrificing density, living standards, speed, or affordability.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Dec. 2025
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
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“Social housing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20housing. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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