council flats
Government-owned apartments
Council flats are apartments in Britain owned and managed by local government, rented to residents at below-market rates.
Built largely in the mid-twentieth century to provide affordable housing for working-class families, council flats range from modest tower blocks to low-rise estates.
She grew up in a council flat in Leeds.
The American equivalent is public housing or housing projects.
- towerTall slender edifice
- tower blockTall residential building
- high riseMultistory urban building
- estateProperty and grounds
- housingDwellings or protective covering
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- housingapartments, home, house, houses, homes
- public housingpublic housing, social housing, housing estates, housing project, housing projects
- UK HousingVictorian terrace, terraced houses, back-to-back, social housing, housing estates
- Celtic dwellingsbothy, croft, crofts, Scottish castles, round towers
- Brutalismraw concrete, exposed concrete, brutalist, concrete slabs, concrete towers
council flatsluxury apartments
Expensive, well-appointed residences
penthouse · luxury apartment · mansion · private estate · gated community
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