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housing tenure

UK/ˈhaʊ.zɪŋ ˈten.jʊər/US/ˈhaʊ.zɪŋ ˈten.jɚ/hous·ing TEN·ure

Band 7+task2speaking

The legal or contractual arrangement by which people occupy housing, such as owning, renting, or leasehold.

Examples

Changes in housing tenure have transformed many urban neighbourhoods.

Security of housing tenure is crucial for long-term investment in homes.

Researchers compared tenure patterns between cities over the last 20 years.

Band 8 sentence

Debates about housing tenure increasingly focus on the balance between flexibility for tenants and security for communities.

Collocations

  • change in housing tenure
  • security of housing tenure
  • tenure arrangements

Word family

tenure (n) nountenured (adj) adjective

Common mistakes

housing tenure securitysecurity of housing tenure

tenure housinghousing tenure

Say it for a higher band

5rent or own6tenure arrangements7+housing tenure

Synonyms

tenure arrangements

Easily confused

tenure security

Tenure security motivates homeowners to invest in property improvements.

tenure arrangements

Tenure arrangements differ significantly between public and private housing.

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