Word.ws English Dictionary

social housing

social housing noun: rental housing owned and managed by the government, non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, with the aim of providing affordable housing, often focusing on disadvantaged groups such as low-income earners, social-security recipients, the elderly and people with disabilities.

Noun

social housing (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Rental housing owned and managed by the government, non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, with the aim of providing affordable housing, often focusing on disadvantaged groups such as low-income earners, social-security recipients, the elderly and people with disabilities.

social housing meaning in Indonesian

social housing in Indonesian

affordable housing provided by public authorities or non-profit organizations
perumahan umum

Synonyms of social housing

Questions about social housing

What does social housing mean?
Social housing means rental housing owned and managed by the government, non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, with the aim of providing affordable housing, often focusing on disadvantaged groups such as low-income earners, social-security recipients, the elderly and people with disabilities.
What is social housing in Indonesian?
Social housing in Indonesian is perumahan umum. See Social housing meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is social housing?
Social housing is a noun.

Words near social housing in the dictionary

  1. social handbags
  2. social hangover
  3. social hangovers
  4. social histories
  5. social history
  6. social housing
  7. social hygiene
  8. social immunity
  9. social imperialism
  10. social infertility
  11. social informatics

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: social housing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “social housing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/social_housing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.