Crossword clues for housing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
housing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a debt/food/housing etc crisis
▪ The failure of the crop this year will create a food crisis.
a housing/residential complex (=for people to live in)
▪ Architects designed the residential complexes near the beach.
a property/housing boom (=a sudden increase in house prices)
▪ People made a lot of money in the 1980s property boom.
a water/food/housing etc shortage
▪ The water shortage was reaching crisis proportions.
council/industrial/housing etc estate
defence/energy/housing etc policy
▪ Our energy policies must put the environment first.
housing association
housing estate
housing project
housing/building landBritish English (= land where houses can be built)
▪ The shortage of housing land is a problem in the south-east.
public housing
social housing
the housing/property etc market
▪ Investors in the property market are worried about rising inflation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
affordable
▪ Reference was made to the need for affordable housing.
▪ And she revealed that first time buyers in Northern Ireland have the most affordable housing in Britain.
▪ There is also a lack of affordable housing for rent or purchase by young couples in the villages.
▪ Providing good housing Decent, affordable and safe housing is vital to personal happiness and family life.
▪ Low cost housing Affordable housing for families had become a priority.
▪ Winning design awards may be more important than building affordable, practical housing estates.
▪ We will therefore create a new Partnership Housing sector to ensure high-quality affordable rented housing.
▪ There are many people who suffer due to lack of affordable housing to rent and inability to cope with mortgage repayments.
bad
▪ Families who are desperate for housing are forced to accept bad housing offers simply because they have no other choice.
▪ I know that it has one of the worst housing problems in the country.
▪ It highlighted all the issues of the unhealthiness of industrial towns, of poverty, bad housing and squalid environments.
▪ The sad fact is, however, that in Britain the old have the worst housing of any group.
▪ Many of those boroughs also have the worst housing, longest waiting lists and highest poverty levels of the country.
▪ Poor conditions, bad housing, unemployment and racism take their toll on black people's mental health.
▪ It is a shabby justification for bad behaviour to say that society or bad housing or education is responsible.
▪ The hell that is Easterhouse Dominic and his family live in one of Glasgow's worst housing estates.
large
▪ Some crews, such as those from large housing estates, had 200 or more members.
▪ In Brussels, the method used to drain one large stable housing about 200 horses was also noted favourably.
▪ The Housing Act 1988 gave further encouragement to the breakup of the large housing estates remaining under local authority control.
▪ With influential links to central government the Eldonian Community in Vauxhall has developed the largest new-build housing co-operative in the country.
▪ Pre-construction work is already under way on four large housing estates in the borough of Waltham Forest.
▪ Very recently the Pitlake area has been redeveloped and a large housing estate built on part of the former Croydon Airport.
local
▪ These arguments doubtless have different real weight in different locations, depending on whether there is pressure on the local housing stock.
▪ The Labour government laid its emphasis upon local authority housing rather than on private building for sale.
▪ Ask the local authority's housing department in the area to which you want to move for the addresses of local hostels.
▪ It is temporary accommodation which puts most permanent local housing to shame.
▪ Some other local housing authorities such as Islington or Walsall are pursuing schemes of widespread decentralisation of housing management.
▪ The other method of entry to the Rowdies was by joining one's mates from school or local housing estate.
▪ Both local housing authorities and housing associations will try to be helpful in finding somewhere suitable to adapt for you.
▪ That will have a fantastic effect on local housing and the lack of facilities in my constituency.
new
▪ An increase in mortgage interest rates depresses the demand for home loans as individuals reduce their demand for new housing.
▪ The answers have suggested new designs for housing, which are coming on the market.
▪ At Exmouth there are plans to redevelop the old docks for new housing.
▪ Mr Jack Kemp, the new housing secretary, promises vigorous enforcement of the law.
▪ The cash will be used to fund a major investment programme, including buying new housing land and expanding its quarrying business.
▪ This includes control over new housing and industry, or arbitration between urban expansion and rural conservation.
▪ In a little town called Alcester a new housing development of three roads has been recently completed.
▪ Detectives are investigating a spate of thefts from a new housing development in Derry.
poor
▪ As homeowners, disabled people are more likely than other households to experience poor housing conditions.
▪ Nurses in that sector have to cope with the effects on their patients of poor housing conditions and a deteriorating social fabric.
▪ Construction and property profits were well ahead, offsetting poor housing results.
▪ Trials Poverty and poor housing conditions.
▪ People with poor housing conditions have to stay in hospital longer.
▪ Old people with poor housing and with no families or supportive neighbours fill more geriatric beds.
▪ For a start, it allows the poor into the housing market by keeping costs low and not threatening higher-income groups.
▪ There are many complaints about the poor quality of housing for teachers.
private
▪ Joanne was 4 years old and attended a private nursery in a private housing estate within a large city.
▪ The quality and price of private housing varies enormously both between city centres and suburbs and between different geographical areas.
▪ The high cost of private housing in a contracting market is a crucial factor in considering the consequences for student well-being.
▪ The sale of the remaining rented houses to private or housing association landlords has been less successful.
▪ Once the constraints on local authority capital expenditure began to bite it cooperated with private housing development on inner-area sites.
▪ In addition the research provides a basis for assessing the pattern for future private housing provision in the province.
▪ Exterior plaster and paintwork, whether on public buildings or private housing, is allowed to flake and crumble.
▪ Until the property-price boom, halls were often more expensive than private housing.
public
▪ This demand has to be made in conjunction with demands for greater control over public housing, by those who inhabit it.
▪ The first thing we did was offer to sell public housing to the people who lived in it.
▪ Another crucial planning innovation, with major implications for the provision of public housing, was the New Towns Act of 1946.
▪ Any visitors who come to the Province can see the quality of public housing in Northern Ireland.
▪ This enormous decline in public housing was largely due to a government-induced squeeze on local authority expenditure.
▪ These included unemployment insurance, public health and housing, and the extension of old-age pensions.
▪ What are the effects of public housing upon the market of housing?
▪ The preliminary results reinforced what many people had suspected about the state of private and public sector housing.
rented
▪ Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
▪ Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
▪ These councils do not collect their rents and have lost control of their rented housing stock.
▪ Some companies also reimburse costs incurred through premature termination of contracts for leased or rented housing as a result of the relocation.
▪ The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
▪ We will therefore create a new Partnership Housing sector to ensure high-quality affordable rented housing.
▪ Housing associations, which are in the private sector, are now the main providers of new social rented housing.
▪ We will fund the provision of short-term rented housing to reduce the use of bed and breakfast accommodation.
rural
▪ It follows that policies for rural housing do not consider the social implications which might result from their implementation.
▪ The danger is that current rural housing policies will produce a polarization of the rural population.
▪ During the 1970s the provision of rural housing for those who can not partake in the market sector has been pitiful.
▪ This classification is a useful starting point for the study of rural housing.
▪ These trends have continued since 1945. Rural housing within reach of farm workers has come to be in even shorter supply.
▪ The problems of rural housing went almost untouched.
▪ The crux of the tied cottage problem, it was argued, was the shortage of rural housing.
sheltered
▪ The issue is to decide the extent to which sufferers may be supported and maintained in sheltered housing.
▪ The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
▪ For example, little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled.
▪ We could have built many schools, sheltered housing schemes and sports centres with those millions of pounds.
▪ In sheltered housing the warden has a very important part to play.
▪ Kitchen fire: Firemen tackled a fire in the Albany Court old people's sheltered housing complex in Hartlepool.
▪ He is widowed and now lives alone in a ground floor fiat in a warden controlled sheltered housing scheme.
social
▪ Nearly all new social housing is now being built by housing associations.
▪ Since 1985-86 alone, total capital public expenditure on social housing provision has been £18.3 billion.
▪ The package is designed to be used with staff from health, social services, housing, voluntary and private agencies.
▪ There are constraining elements affecting the owner-occupied sector, and those impinging on social housing.
▪ In housing, inequalities in basic standards have narrowed but the same can not be said in relation to the social standards of housing.
▪ The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
▪ As expected, the association between social class and housing tenure is very strong.
▪ MDC's approach to housing development in its extended area acknowledges the need for social housing provision.
■ NOUN
area
▪ This will provide a break between shopping and housing areas.
▪ These include some of the city's peripheral housing areas and parts of the other Districts.
▪ These environmental problems associated with traffic in housing areas affect very large numbers of people.
▪ We fail to design pedestrian-friendly cars, to enforce slow speeds in housing areas, or to educate drivers in pedestrian safety.
▪ The saga of North Shields town centre and adjacent housing areas.
▪ No legal change in priority has been contemplated, so that drivers may continue to assume dominance over foot traffic in housing areas.
association
▪ The Government-funded Housing Corporation will reveal how much it is giving about 70 housing associations in the region.
▪ Nearly all new social housing is now being built by housing associations.
▪ The question arises whether some of our married quarters may be sold to housing associations who will give priority to service men.
▪ Only one knew how many such properties were provided by housing associations in their area.
▪ Schools and housing associations can opt out of local authority control.
▪ We will also encourage the Corporation to extend opportunities for tenant involvement in the management of housing association properties.
▪ It would be replaced by a mixture of housing associations, tenants' co-ownership schemes and further individual ownership.
authority
▪ The Labour government laid its emphasis upon local authority housing rather than on private building for sale.
▪ Local authority housing is the responsibility of the lower-tier local authorities.
▪ Housing management Fundamentally, the system of local authority housing management has its roots in the early work of Octavia Hill.
▪ When they came to power in 1970 the Conservatives decided that public expenditure on local authority housing needed to be curbed.
▪ For example, one aim of a business plan may be to acquire the local authority housing department as a new client.
▪ I am concerned about clause 3 and its effect on local authority housing.
▪ We will extend compulsory competitive tendering to local authority housing management, and examine how to apply it to white-collar services.
▪ Local authority housing expenditure suffered most.
benefit
▪ This included the poll tax and changes in health provision, unemployment and housing benefits and education.
▪ The few that are not - those with high housing benefit - can be helped through the access funds.
▪ Changing supplementary and housing benefit would be more contentious than reforming occupational pensions.
▪ Housing Benefit Scheme Changes in the value of housing benefit constitute the sixth reform of welfare since 1979.
▪ In fact, the housing benefit scheme only came fully into operation in April 1983.
▪ The poll tax will increase the numbers eligible for housing benefit.
▪ If the strictures of the Conservative party against the implications of socialism were implemented, there would be no housing benefit.
committee
▪ The housing committee agreed the across-the-board increases on Thursday.
▪ The project will involve the borough council's housing committee.
▪ The council's housing committee is to consider the plea today.
▪ A full investigation of the incident was continuing yesterday and a full report will be prepared for the next housing committee meeting.
▪ Members of the housing committee are expected to approve the investigation at their meeting on Wednesday.
▪ The housing committee says it no longer has any use for the site and it will now be open to private development.
▪ But housing committee chairman, Bill Dixon, said the criticism related to a time before Labour was in office.
costs
▪ A different index, the Rossi index, omits housing costs.
▪ As before, their distribution among institutions takes account of student numbers and regional variations in housing costs.
▪ Owner-occupiers tend to delay childbearing because they face heavy housing costs at the beginning of their marriage.
▪ If the employer offers assistance towards housing costs, worries about living in a more expensive environment may be allayed.
▪ It also provided approximately 40% of the stipends and housing costs of the 11,500 serving clergy.
▪ Compensation packages for expatriates coming to Britain usually cover schooling costs, private medical care and housing costs.
▪ This is not cheap: housing costs eat up 44% of a typical wage-earner's income, as opposed to 14% in the 1950s.
▪ This has pushed up housing costs and forced retirees with some capital but often on fixed incomes to seek out cheaper places.
department
▪ Access to housing Most housing departments failed to integrate disabled people into their allocation policies.
▪ So why are they different when met over the counter in a social security office or a housing department?
▪ Ask the local authority's housing department in the area to which you want to move for the addresses of local hostels.
▪ Education and housing departments, water and electricity boards have often failed to follow policy guidelines or to co-ordinate their work.
▪ If you are living in council property you must discuss adapting your house with the housing department.
▪ In two cases these policies had been developed as a result of dialogue between the housing department and local disability organisations.
development
▪ These had expanded in intensity after the First World War, with extensive housing development in the areas served.
▪ The trees came down and the housing developments went up.
▪ With regard to housing development in, as opposed to around, North Shields, the same is true with one qualification.
▪ Planning permission for a big housing development has been refused, and the group is in deep trouble over it.
▪ In a little town called Alcester a new housing development of three roads has been recently completed.
▪ The population in 1981 was 1,640 but housing development since then has substantially increased this number.
▪ And a report to Darlington borough councillors says the plans could affect small housing developments to the south of Court Arcade.
▪ MDC's approach to housing development in its extended area acknowledges the need for social housing provision.
estate
▪ The specific provision at Southwark includes a basic education programme located on one particular housing estate.
▪ Farmland is being changed into housing estates, into factory sites and into roads, motorways and airfields.
▪ This afternoon we went to see a new workers' housing estate and visited some homes.
▪ Some were corporation housing estates, reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class.
▪ The prospect of designing among nature rather than battling with cement and glass and housing estates appealed enormously.
▪ Extensive community work and interviews with young Arsenal supporters in a run-down housing estate by Robbins and Cohen confirmed this impression.
▪ Inpart, this is due to the higher profile of socio-legal agencies on working-class housing estates where the user is more visible.
▪ Winning design awards may be more important than building affordable, practical housing estates.
land
▪ The increased width of road can be achieved without further encroachment on to the Magdalene housing land. 8.
▪ The cash will be used to fund a major investment programme, including buying new housing land and expanding its quarrying business.
▪ I have noted your suggestion that further housing land should be allocated at Aberlady.
▪ In other words the five year housing land supply should not be the Structure Plan requirement plus an allowance of 60%.
▪ They also sold infrastructure and public sector housing land to the councils at historic cost plus interest rather than developed land value.
market
▪ Equally, stagnation in the housing market has been most severely felt in the south east.
▪ And in comparison with the South-East, the North's housing market looks positively buoyant.
▪ We have grown our mortgage book very substantially in a stagnant housing market.
▪ Solicitors' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse.
▪ But the long recession, together with high unemployment figures and a stagnant housing market, has changed homeowners' perceptions.
▪ The state was as reluctant to intervene in the housing market, despite its manifest deficiencies.
▪ However, life assurance business was strongly related to the boom in the housing market which came to an end in 1988.
▪ They did a first class piece of work on where the housing market was likely to go over the next 10 years.
need
▪ The housing needs of the elderly, in particular, must be a prominent policy issue in years to come.
▪ National associations also tend to sponsor larger schemes in the more important settlements rather than in areas of isolated housing need.
▪ Consideration was given to housing need in two Acts in 1919.
▪ That will be good for the building industry and for meeting housing need.
▪ The intention was to meet housing need through public sector construction.
▪ These will either be sold or let on short term leases to those in housing need.
▪ Local authorities will be encouraged to offer those in housing need the opportunity to restore and improve council properties.
policy
▪ Chapter 10 looks at housing policy.
▪ There has been much criticism of the government's housing policy, much of it from organisations outside parliament.
▪ The danger is that current rural housing policies will produce a polarization of the rural population.
▪ Local authorities' ability to plan and develop a co-ordinated housing policy has been curtailed.
▪ It is clearly one area where government housing policies have had an equalising effect.
▪ No housing policy can be sound which does not deal courageously with rent restriction as a whole.
▪ There are also some other public-private interactions of some significance for housing policy.
▪ The Government's housing policy is abysmal.
problem
▪ Its entire purpose is somehow to turn mud into a cement-like material - a material with a multi-national answer to housing problems.
▪ I know that it has one of the worst housing problems in the country.
▪ She fears Swindon's housing problems can only get worse.
▪ Efforts of this kind, considerable though they were, could not solve the immense housing problem.
▪ The most acute of Derry's housing problems was the Springtown Camp.
▪ But the housing problems of the big cities would not go away.
▪ There was no housing problem here.
provision
▪ Public-sector housing provision, which might have allowed for greater mobility, declined in the 1970s and 1980s.
▪ Many hon. Members have spoken about the pressures on our social services and educational and housing provision.
▪ Since 1985-86 alone, total capital public expenditure on social housing provision has been £18.3 billion.
▪ They consider, interalia, the position of old people in regard to health and housing provision.
▪ In addition the research provides a basis for assessing the pattern for future private housing provision in the province.
▪ MDC's approach to housing development in its extended area acknowledges the need for social housing provision.
▪ As a result, it saw the need to continue strong support for local authority housing provision.
scheme
▪ Apartments opened A £725,000 sheltered housing scheme for the elderly was officially opened in Irvinestown today.
▪ All three live in a Bradford housing scheme in Middlesbrough.
▪ We could have built many schools, sheltered housing schemes and sports centres with those millions of pounds.
▪ Time allowed 00:18 Read in studio Eight young couples are living in new homes thanks to a village's own housing scheme.
▪ Each property will have two bedrooms and 20 new homes will be provided by the housing scheme.
▪ The authority has gained a reputation for innovative housing schemes.
▪ They design wonderful housing schemes for us to live in.
▪ It was an important principle that these housing schemes should pay their way.
shortage
▪ In any case the number of dwellings actually completed by 1950 was pathetically small, and housing shortages were felt acutely elsewhere.
▪ The situation was made worse by the 1986 earthquake, which exacerbated the housing shortage and destroyed or damaged numerous schools.
▪ This would include tackling the problems of housing shortages and population growth.
▪ Because of the extreme housing shortage it's a first-come, first-served, first-secured process.
▪ This success suggested that the general housing shortage was now considerably eased, and attention returned to slum clearance.
▪ All signs of a housing shortage had disappeared by 1963.
▪ Moreover, the fundamental problem remains that of the housing shortage.
▪ These were years of housing shortage and this was frequently the reason.
stock
▪ Demographic structure and housing Changes in family structures since 1960 have coincided with changes in housing stock.
▪ These arguments doubtless have different real weight in different locations, depending on whether there is pressure on the local housing stock.
▪ Meanwhile the housing stock was being changed.
▪ Her area has many people with learning disabilities; the community is tolerant and the housing stock suits conversion.
▪ These councils do not collect their rents and have lost control of their rented housing stock.
▪ It is because I share it that I must draw attention to the scandalous mismanagement of the housing stock in Liverpool.
▪ Failure to improve the condition of the remaining housing stock has also played an important part in the rise of ghetto conditions.
▪ It would improve the housing stock and decrease the future need for renovation and repair.
tenure
▪ They suggest therefore that greater emphasis be given to housing tenure in evaluating relative deprivation.
▪ It is clear that housing tenure is associated with major differentials in patterns of marriage and childbearing.
▪ As expected, the association between social class and housing tenure is very strong.
▪ What is more surprising is that differentials by housing tenure are even more substantial.
▪ This strongly suggests that housing tenure is associated with more substantial and fundamental aspects than simply housing matters.
■ VERB
build
▪ Money must be found to build the new loose housing, which it says will then also cost more to run.
▪ Nearly all new social housing is now being built by housing associations.
▪ What a good idea to build us a new housing estate so that we can pay property tax!
▪ This is built into a special housing to fit the filter box, often on or replacing the lid.
improve
▪ It included government-sponsored contributory old-age pensions, and eight-hour day and improved working-class housing.
▪ There is, therefore, a real and urgent need to improve the housing conditions of the elderly.
▪ Steps will be taken to improve sub-standard housing.
▪ Legislation may therefore have done relatively little to help tied cottagers or to improve low cost agricultural housing.
▪ It would improve the housing stock and decrease the future need for renovation and repair.
▪ It also features schemes to improve car parking, housing and industry.
live
▪ Viceversa, the proportion of the professional group living in grossly under-occupied housing is twice as great.
▪ The impression has been given that they can not live independently in ordinary housing.
▪ He lives alone in a housing association flat on the top two floors of a house in Tufnell Park.
provide
▪ Local authority associations have identified the need for additional resources to provide both housing and education of the children of refugees.
▪ In the New Towns special development corporations provide public housing.
▪ Each property will have two bedrooms and 20 new homes will be provided by the housing scheme.
▪ The plaintiff was held to have an action for breach of statutory duty where the council failed to provide housing.
▪ Only one knew how many such properties were provided by housing associations in their area.
▪ The company only provides housing while you're working.
▪ The Corporation provides money to housing associations which rent and sell property.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc
▪ Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
▪ Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
▪ Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
▪ The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
▪ The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
▪ They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
▪ This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
▪ Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
sheltered accommodation/housing
▪ A regional study of difficult-to-let sheltered accommodation for older people Falshaw, Richard.
▪ Apartments opened A £725,000 sheltered housing scheme for the elderly was officially opened in Irvinestown today.
▪ For example, little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled.
▪ Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
▪ The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
▪ The issue is to decide the extent to which sufferers may be supported and maintained in sheltered housing.
▪ We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff, for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
▪ With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Any plan that can provide affordable housing would be a plus.
▪ Hundreds of students are still looking for housing near campus.
▪ Most of the housing in the area is sub-standard and nothing is being done to improve it.
▪ public housing
▪ the housing authority
▪ The council is making a great effort to provide cheap housing and more public facilities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A joint commission was established to co-ordinate actions on economy, law, pensions, housing, energy and ecology.
▪ Investment in housing, transport, education and social services would have risen with a Labour victory.
▪ The company was quite aware of the housing problems, and rented accommodation wherever it was available.
▪ The future must bring increased availability of housing and social facilities.
▪ This included the poll tax and changes in health provision, unemployment and housing benefits and education.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
housing
Houseline \House"line`\, n. (Naut.)
A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called
also housing.
--Totten.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
housing
"buildings, lodgings," early 14c., husing, from the root of house (n.).
housing
"ornamental covering," c.1300, houce "covering for the back and flanks of a horse," from Old French houce "mantle, horse-blanket" (Modern French housse), from Medieval Latin hultia "protective covering," from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hulfti (cognates: Middle Dutch hulfte "pocket for bow and arrow," Middle High German hulft "covering"), from PIE root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell). Sense of "case or enclosure for machine or part" is first recorded 1882.
Wiktionary
housing
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. 2 (context uncountable English) residences, collectively. 3 (context countable English) A mechanical component's container or covering. 4 A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings. 5 An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness. 6 (context architecture English) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another. 7 A niche for a statue. 8 (context nautical English) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. 9 (context nautical English) A houseline. vb. (present participle of house English)
WordNet
housing
n. housing structures collectively; structures in which people are housed [syn: lodging, living accommodations]
a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component
stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: caparison, trapping, trappings, housings]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Housing
Housing generally refers to the social problem of ensuring that members of society have a home in which to live, whether this is a house, or some other kind of dwelling, lodging, or shelter. Many governments have an administrative section that deals with housing, such as the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development., Housing Development Board in Singapore and Housing Authority in Hong Kong.
Usage examples of "housing".
The town had an outer band of factories, similar to those that Mark had worked in back in Biewn, several condo-style accommodation blocks, and five sprawling housing estates.
Much as I hate to do it, we can still use amplified Flux west of Nantzee to duplicate rails and cross-beams that require precise size standards, as we are now doing with the housing kits.
For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchism, which explains why, owing to the physical constitution of our globe, society cannot effectively organize the production of its food, clothes and housing, nor distribute them fairly and economically on any anarchic plan: nay, that without concerting our social action to a much higher degree than we do at present we can never get rid of the wasteful and iniquitous welter of a little riches and a deal of poverty which current political humbug calls our prosperity and civilization.
On the outside she remained a hundred-meter spheroid, its smoothness broken by airlocks, hatches, boat bays, instrument housings, communications boom, grapples, and micrometeoroid pocks that had given the metal a matte finish.
After speeding recklessly for twenty minutes through winding country roads lined with horse farms, commercial areas, and suburban housing tracts, Joel overshot Old Country Road, a main east-west thoroughfare.
The Cimmeroons cut down a number of Palmito boughs and branches, and soon had two large sheds built, both trim and watertight, for the housing of the company.
The protein roll bounced away and fetched up against the Parametric Laser housing.
Light-boxes glowed on the pair of claw-footed parquetry tables in the dim sitting room, low candlelight shining through the tiny pinpricks in the perforated tin housings.
So while there were plenty of extra pens, there was no need to take the risk of conflict by housing the beasts too closely together.
Its colour was set off by its red chanfrein, its nodding crest of red feathers, its broad poitrinal with red tassels, and its saddle with red housings.
But before I got there, I turned east, toward the Potrero Annex housing project, where Bobby Foster had grown up.
Meanwhile, members of the elite, who continued to mouth slogans about egalitarianism, socialism, and Arab nationalism, were perpetuating their own privileges, enjoying such benefits as tax-free imports, preferential housing, and special rights to travel.
She lifted the housing back into place, wondering if anyone in the City had pyrotic Talent to mend the crack and if there were any spare generator parts left on Deneb.
Office of Price Administration regulated the price of almost all commodities, as well as the rentals for housing accommodations in scores of defense rental areas.
That association has already taken the first step in advanced housing, and reduced the cost of safe and rentable city shelter to its lowest terms.