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.
Public property Public property is a division of state property which the state has dedicated for public use. Public property can as well be used to mean the use of the property or to expound on how it is owned, for instance owned by a stateâs population. Property entrusted to the state as opposed to communities or individuals is referred to as state or government property. Examples include federal or police cars.