7 sentences with 'housing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word housing and other words derived from it.
• « Town landlords took advantage of the influx of workers and their families by building cheap housing in which several families often lived in one room. »
• « The ghettos were built almost immediately, from late 1939 to early 1940, and ended up housing millions of people in areas that were supposed to hold perhaps a few hundred thousand at most. »
• « Greed proved to be an implacable enemy of communist social organisation, with party apparatchiks (bureaucrats) reaping the benefits of their positions - better food, better housing, holidays - that were never available to ordinary citizens. »
• « The standard of living in the USSR was mediocre, but medical care, housing and food were free or cheap thanks to state subsidies. The kind of "levelling out" associated with communist theory occurred, in a sense, because most people lived at a similar standard of living, despite the advantages afforded to older members of the communist party. »
• « In the late 1950s, 37% of Western European families' income was indirect, subsidies "paid" by their governments in the form of housing allowances, food subsidies, health care and education. European governments spent four times as much revenue on social services in 1957 as they did in 1930. »
• « The left-right compromise that had seen widespread support for nationalised industry, free health care and education, housing subsidies and strong trade unions collapsed for good from the mid-1970s onwards. »