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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As of 2020, single-family homes comprised 81% of the town’s housing stock, with many situated on lots of an acre or larger. —

Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024 The region's homebuilding as a share of its housing stock for over three decades has trailed the national average, as housing costs have emerged as a top concern among local residents. —

Andrew Keatts, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024 His city’s housing stock consists mostly of older, relatively small single family lots, not the sprawling estates that would otherwise provide extra space for new housing units. —

Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024 By January of this year, Air Force bombing had wrecked some seventy per cent of the civilian population’s housing stock. —

Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for housing stock