Example sentences for: public-housing

How can you use “public-housing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Add to these disastrous policies a segregated public-housing program that concentrated affordable housing for the poor in central cities, and you see why, by 1950, the suburbs were growing 10 times faster than the central cities; and why, in 1960, not a single one of the 82,000 residents of Levittown was black.

  • Veteran filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's three-hour documentary about a Chicago public-housing project wins critical approval.

  • The calamity spurred the government to launch an emergency program of public-housing construction; spartan new blocks of apartments put cheap and fireproof roofs over hundreds of thousands of heads.

  • The class-action suits, which would be brought by local public-housing authorities and coordinated by the Clinton administration, would demand reimbursement for security and other costs of handgun violence.

  • The agency installs computers in public-housing projects so that jobless residents can do telemarketing from home.


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