social housing
(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
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Inverclyde Labour run council send £19million back to Holyrood unspent. It was ringfenced for Social Housing. Note the rag also puts a pic of the SNP MSP & not Sarwar. www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/2572068...
I’ll do my democratic duty on Thursday, but not with any great enthusiasm. Still pissed off that my local Green Party are opposing a new housing development that’s 100% social housing. Ffs.
Now where could they have built the Social Housing that SNP gave them to build after Labour created a "Housing Emergency" in Scotland.... www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/2599916...
In the city I live in, 14,000 people are on the waiting list for social housing as one in three children grow up in poverty But sure, it’s the landlords who need some hope
A wide range of news in this monthly wrap-up of chapter news, including election results in Wisconsin and Arizona, a @portlanddsa.bsky.social win on social housing, and updated graphics showing chapter growth.
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(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.
“Inverclyde Labour run council send £19million back to Holyrood unspent. It was ringfenced for Social Housing. Note the rag also puts a pic of the SNP MSP & not Sarwar. www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/2572068...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I’ll do my democratic duty on Thursday, but not with any great enthusiasm. Still pissed off that my local Green Party are opposing a new housing development that’s 100% social housing. Ffs.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Now where could they have built the Social Housing that SNP gave them to build after Labour created a "Housing Emergency" in Scotland.... www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/2599916...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“In the city I live in, 14,000 people are on the waiting list for social housing as one in three children grow up in poverty But sure, it’s the landlords who need some hope”
— Bluesky· May 2026“A wide range of news in this monthly wrap-up of chapter news, including election results in Wisconsin and Arizona, a @portlanddsa.bsky.social win on social housing, and updated graphics showing chapter growth.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US) Housing for people whose income is a certain percentage below the median income for an area, as determined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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A British and Irish term describing someone who lives in a council house — a publicly owned, government-subsidised property rented to lower-income residents. While simply a factual descriptor, 'council-housed' carries significant class connotations in UK culture and is sometimes used pejoratively in phrases like 'council-house mentality.' The term intersects with debates about social housing, class mobility, and the stigma attached to state assistance, making it loaded in certain contexts while being entirely neutral in others.
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(UK, Ireland) Living in a council house.