Vanessa Nicholson (granddaughter of Vanessa Bell, one of the pivotal figures of the unconventional, but influential Bloomsbury Group in the first half of the 20th century) has described it as a curious slippery adjective.
Definition of 'public housing'. public housing. uncountable noun. Public housing is apartments or houses that are rented to poor people, usually at a low cost, by the government. [mainly US] ...the construction of more public housing.
Definition of Temporary Housing. According to the Internal Revenue Service, temporary housing is housing that you live in when working on a temporary assignment for your employer that takes you outside of an acceptable commuting distance from your home. The IRS further defines temporary as one year or less.