"buildings, lodgings," early 14c., husing, from the root of house (n.).
housing (n.2)
"ornamental covering," c. 1300, houce "covering for the back and flanks of a horse," from Old French houce "mantle, horse-blanket" (Modern French housse), from Medieval Latin hultia "protective covering," from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hulfti (cognates: Middle Dutch hulfte "pocket for bow and arrow," Middle High German hulft "covering"), from PIE root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell). Sense of "case or enclosure for machine or part" is first recorded 1882.
例文
1. The government is taking emergency action to deal with a housing crisis.
政府は住宅危機を解決するための緊急措置を講じている。
2.Little of the existing housing is of good enough quality.
既存の住宅ではほとんど品質がクリアされていない。
3.Residents in general are poor and undereducated,and live in sub-standard housing .
住民は一般的に貧しく、教育を受けている程度が低く、居住条件が悪い。
4.I think that the underlying problem is education，unemployment and bad housing .
深層の問題は教育、失業、悪い住宅条件にあると思います。
5.Blacks have been hurt by racial inequalities in housing and education.