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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 familiesplay

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC HOUSING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PUBLIC HOUSING (noun)


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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