housing shortage

基本解释

The housing shortage has worsened every year since he took office in 1999.
自從1999年查韋斯上台以來，住房缺少的現象一年比一年嚴重。
Blocks of housing once occupied by workers are vacant in Marcona, a town with an acute housing shortage.
以前住滿工人的房子也被廻收，導致鎮子上出現了嚴重的住房短缺問題。
They say it'll cut off the Palestinian town of Bethlehem from Arab areas of East Jerusalem, but the government says it'll help address Israel's housing shortage.
他們說，此擧將會使巴勒斯坦城鎮伯利恒從東耶路撒冷的阿拉伯區域切斷，但是政府稱此擧將幫助解決以色列的房屋短缺問題。

One of them was that the U.S. Government had shut down the construction industry during the war, so they didn't build any houses for close to five years; obviously we had a shortage of housing.
其一就是美國政府在戰爭時期,停止了建築行業,那時他們已經快五年沒有建造任何房屋了,顯然,房屋資源是短缺的
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Last year he promised to solve a chronic housing shortage by building 85, 000 new apartments a year.
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That still leaves a big housing shortage, though, in a state where more than 200, 000 homes were destroyed by the hurricanes.
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