low-rise housing

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• low-rise — ˈlow rise adjective [only before a noun] PROPERTY a low rise building does not have many floors: • There is a common belief that low rise housing will increase the urban sprawl. compare high rise * * * low rise UK US /ˈləʊˌraɪz/ adjective …   Financial and business terms

• low-rise — adjective Date: 1957 1. having few stories and not equipped with elevators < a low rise classroom building > 2. of, relating to, or characterized by low rise buildings < a low rise housing development > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• housing —    Housing in Britain has increasingly been dominated by one type, the owner occupied, single family dwelling in a suburb, in marked contrast to practice elsewhere in Europe. It is not however the only form of British housing, and emphasizing it… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

• Housing cooperative — Not to be confused with building cooperative. 999 N. Lake Shore Drive, a coop owned residential building in Chicago, Illinois, United States …   Wikipedia

• Housing estate — A housing estate is a group of buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Accordingly, a housing estate is usually built by a single contractor, with only a few styles of house or building… …   Wikipedia

• Housing Commission of Victoria — The Housing Commission of Victoria (colloquially known as the Housing Commission) was a State Government body responsible for public housing in Victoria, Australia. Responsible to the Victorian Minister for Housing it was established in 1938 and… …   Wikipedia

• Housing and Development Board — The Housing and Development Board (Abbreviation: HDB; Simplified Chinese: 建屋发展局; Malay: Lembaga Pembangunan dan Perumahan ; Tamil: வீடமைப்பு வளர்ச்சிக் கழகம் ) is the statutory board of the Ministry of National Development responsible for public… …   Wikipedia

• housing — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ affordable, cheap, good, low cost, low income (esp. AmE) ▪ They provide good low cost housing for workers. ▪ subsidized (esp. AmE) …   Collocations dictionary

• Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust — is a government scheme, set up under the Housing Act 1988, established Housing Action Trusts (HATs) to redevelopment some urban council housing estates.Councils would transfer their stock to them, and the (locally elected) board would run the… …   Wikipedia

• housing —    Housing in Spain runs the entire gamut of housing types, from the rudimentary shacks of the shanty towns to opulent detached villas located on the outskirts of towns, or in prestigious suburbs like the nineteenth century Salamanca district of… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

• Housing in Japan — A public housing building provided by the government of Tokyo …   Wikipedia