housing shortage

基本解释

The housing shortage has worsened every year since he took office in 1999.
自从1999年查韦斯上台以来，住房缺少的现象一年比一年严重。
Blocks of housing once occupied by workers are vacant in Marcona, a town with an acute housing shortage.
以前住满工人的房子也被回收，导致镇子上出现了严重的住房短缺问题。
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.
他们说，此举将会使巴勒斯坦城镇伯利恒从东耶路撒冷的阿拉伯区域切断，但是政府称此举将帮助解决以色列的房屋短缺问题。

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.
其一就是美国政府在战争时期,停止了建筑行业,那时他们已经快五年没有建造任何房屋了,显然,房屋资源是短缺的
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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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