public housing
housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to people with low incomes.
Origin of public housing
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How to use public housing in a sentence
He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.
Mario Cuomo: An OK Governor, but a Far Better Person | Michael Tomasky | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd yet, as we knocked on the doors in the public housing projects, big picture political ideology was never mentioned.
Pre-Giuliani Gotham had separate police forces for public housing and the subways, as well as the NYPD.
Is New York City Mayoral Candidate Bill de Blasio the New Dinkins? | Fred Siegel | September 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe fought to survive with welfare checks and public housing until she one day figured out a way to turn her life around.
With ‘Fix My Life,’ Iyanla Vanzant Opens Next Chapter by Helping Others | Allison Samuels | September 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTDanny, the only child of Su Zhen, a seamstress, and Yan Tao, a chef, lived in public housing on the Lower East Side.
Arrests of Service Men Raises Question of Racism in Soldier's Death | Diane Herbst | December 22, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
Continuation of the public housing program adopted in the Housing Act of 1949.
It's time that all public housing residents have that opportunity of ownership.
Our administration is already encouraging certain low-income public housing residents to own and manage their own dwellings.
It also means tenant control and ownership of public housing.
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