public housing

1. 1.

   a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families

   Synonymshousing project

   Broaderhousing development

Questions about public housing

What does public housing mean?

public housing means "a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families".

What is another word for public housing?

Close synonyms include housing project. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is public housing a common word?

public housing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.