housing crisis

collocation in English

meaningsofhousingandcrisis

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housing
noun[U]
uk
/ˈhaʊ.zɪŋ/us
/ˈhaʊ.zɪŋ/
buildings for people to ...
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crisis
noun
uk
/ˈkraɪ.sɪs/us
/ˈkraɪ.sɪs/
a time of great disagreement, confusion, ...
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(Definition ofhousingandcrisisfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Many small builders, often with no former experience, nevertheless tried their hand at a house or two, thereby helping to avert ahousingcrisis.
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If this were to be achieved, it might be possible to apply public-private remedies to the city'shousingcrisis.
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The administration opened all its buildings to the homeless, and set about devising a longer-term response to thehousingcrisis.
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But the figures highlight the serious extent of a problem that, unless it is adequately addressed, could quickly develop into a serious ruralhousingcrisis.
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There is a growinghousingcrisisfor two main and obvious reasons.
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They will become second homes, and thehousingcrisisin the town will be made even worse.
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I move it because thehousingcrisisis a crisis the length and breadth of the country.
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Low wage rates paid to predominantly foreign workers have caused an intensification of the inner urbanhousingcrisis.
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I believe in the revitalisation of public sector housing as the only real means of solving the nation's ever-growinghousingcrisis.
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However, as a result of those stark images, we sometimes lose contact with the fact that there is also a ruralhousingcrisis.
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There are many ways in which thehousingcrisiscan be tackled.
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Solving thehousingcrisisis far more important than building more and more motorways, which increase traffic problems and do little to solve them.
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They become more pertinent as ourhousingcrisisintensifies.
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Things are bad enough, but there is a need to avert the majorhousingcrisisthat is round the corner.
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More well-informed commentators are beginning to forecast a major publichousingcrisis.
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There is ahousingcrisiswhich, on the basis of present policies, can only get worse.
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The sale of stock during the 1980s without properly replacing it has exacerbated the existinghousingcrisis.
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Let there be no misunderstanding: one of those pressures is the fact that there is ahousingcrisis.
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We have restricted that by reducing the discounts inhousingcrisisareas.
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It happens to those who cannot buy their way out of thehousingcrisis.
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