housing sector

collocation in English

meaningsofhousingandsector

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housing
noun[U]
uk
/ˈhaʊ.zɪŋ/us
/ˈhaʊ.zɪŋ/
buildings for people to ...
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sector
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsek.tər/us
/ˈsek.tɚ/
one of the areas into which the economic activity of a country ...
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(Definition ofhousingandsectorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhousing sector

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First, there is a four-fold classification of countries by size of socialhousingsector(large/small) and immigration history (long/short).
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In effect, therefore, thehousingsectoris building in obsolescence through inflexibility; as one housing developer told us, this is not entirely accidental.
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Its geographic location, new and stronghousingsectorcombined with business expansion has attracted many young, healthy, wealthy and highly educated people.
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Questions about the value and purpose of charitable status divided the voluntaryhousingsector.
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State intervention is not limited to the socialhousingsector.
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These show that a large socialhousingsectordoes not imply lower housing costs.
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An attempt to overcome this through legislation was defeated and underscored the continuing discrimination in thehousingsector.
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However, it can be argued that meeting aspirations of transfer applicants within social housing provides a means to create a more sustainable and socially mixed socialhousingsector.
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Up until now, interventions in thehousingsectorcould only take place within the scope of urban-development projects relating to the renovation of housing.
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That is lower than the figure for any otherhousingsector.
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It has hit thehousingsectorimmediately, as the drop in completions and starts of homes for sale has shown all too clearly.
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Totally apart from the general rate of inflation there was a particular and specific rate of inflation in thehousingsector.
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The pressure exists throughout thehousingsectorfor those who do not own their own homes.
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I hope that in the longer run the committee will make a useful contribution to the resolution of problems in the privatehousingsector.
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In most economies a great deal of expansion is in the distributive and service sectors, and in thehousingsector.
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We must recognise that we shall retain property in the private rentedhousingsectoronly by slowing down its rate of decline.
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An example is the one being used in thehousingsector.
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The programme of rent restructuring applies only to the socialhousingsectorand not to the de-regulated private sector.
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