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.
Three basic types of government housing assistance are:_ Public housing -- low cost housing in multi-unit complexes that are available to low-income families, includingthe elderly and disabled, typically requiring tenants to pay no more than 30 percent of their monthly income forrent.