housing stock
noun
: the total number of houses and apartments in an area
There was a decrease in available housing stock last year.
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Much of the prewar urban housing stock was genuinely terrible — many people lacked access to a full bathroom or even a flush toilet.
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Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 July 2025
Waukegan, with an affordable and wide mix of housing stock, is seeing an uptick in building plans, including repurposing the old YMCA at County and Clayton streets downtown.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Indeed, landlords’ mass abandonment of properties during those decades forced the city and its tenants to take over much of the housing stock, leading to the creation of hundreds of thousands of low-cost apartments.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 June 2025
Yet our research, which compares growth in the housing stock from 2000 to the present, finds no evidence of an overall shortage of housing units.
—Alex Schwartz, The Conversation, 26 June 2025
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Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 July 2025
Waukegan, with an affordable and wide mix of housing stock, is seeing an uptick in building plans, including repurposing the old YMCA at County and Clayton streets downtown.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Indeed, landlords’ mass abandonment of properties during those decades forced the city and its tenants to take over much of the housing stock, leading to the creation of hundreds of thousands of low-cost apartments.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 June 2025
Yet our research, which compares growth in the housing stock from 2000 to the present, finds no evidence of an overall shortage of housing units.
—Alex Schwartz, The Conversation, 26 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for housing stock
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“Housing stock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20stock. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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