The difference between Accommodation and Housing
When used as nouns, accommodation means lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc, whereas housing means the activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
check bellow for the other definitions of Accommodation and Housing
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Accommodation as a noun (chiefly, British, usually, a mass noun):
Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
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Accommodation as a noun (physical):
Adaptation or adjustment. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need. The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part. The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
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Accommodation as a noun (personal):
Adaptation or adjustment. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. A loan of money. An accommodation bill or note. An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted. An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
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Accommodation as a noun (countable, geology):
The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
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Accommodation as a noun (linguistics, sociolinguistics):
Modifications to make one's way of speaking similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
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Housing as a verb:
Examples:
"We are housing the company's servers in Florida."
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Housing as a noun (uncountable):
The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
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Housing as a noun (uncountable):
Residences, collectively.
Examples:
"She lives in low-income housing."
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Housing as a noun (countable):
A mechanical component's container or covering.
Examples:
"The gears were grinding against their housing."
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Housing as a noun:
A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
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Housing as a noun:
An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
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Housing as a noun (architecture):
The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
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Housing as a noun:
A niche for a statue.
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Housing as a noun (nautical):
That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
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Housing as a noun (nautical):
A houseline.