housing

housing
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ affordable, cheap, good, low-cost, low-income (esp. AmE)
▪

They provide good low-cost housing for workers.

▪ subsidized (esp. AmE), supported (BrE)
▪ decent, good
▪ adequate
▪ bad (esp. BrE), inadequate, poor (esp. BrE), substandard (esp. AmE)
▪

Many health problems are made worse by inadequate housing.

▪ permanent, temporary
▪ council (BrE), local-authority (BrE), public (esp. AmE), public-sector (BrE), social (esp. BrE)
▪

Public expenditure on social housing provision has doubled in the last five years.

▪ private
▪ rental (AmE), rented (BrE)
▪ student
▪ sheltered (BrE)
▪

sheltered housing for old people

▪ high-rise, terraced (BrE)
▪

The area is dominated by terraced housing.

▪ rural, urban
VERB + HOUSING
▪ build, provide
HOUSING + NOUN
▪ association (BrE), authority, committee (BrE), department, office
▪ conditions
▪ complex, development, estate (BrE), programme/program, project (AmE), scheme (BrE), unit
▪

Many new housing developments had sprung up around the city.

▪ construction
▪ provision (esp. BrE)
▪ stock
▪ market
▪ prices
▪ crisis, shortage
▪ boom, bubble
▪

What happens when the housing boom finally slows?

▪ allowance, assistance, benefit (BrE), subsidy (esp. AmE), voucher (AmE)
▪

She receives a substantial housing allowance on top of her salary.

▪

I received housing benefit when I was unemployed.

PREPOSITION
▪ in … housing
▪

Too many families are still living in substandard housing.


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