affordable housing

affordable housing (uncountable)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see affordable,‎ housing.
2. (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).
   • 2016, Nestor M. Davidson, Robin Paul Malloy, Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships, page 232:

     Such plans incorporate a range of public housing units, market rate dwelling units, and affordable housing units with shallower subsidies than those available for public housing units, financed by a variety of mechanisms in addition to the federal HOPE VI grant.

• Section 8
• social housing

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