Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) a person living in Housing Commission accommodation, thus attrib.

1994		Sydney Morn. Herald 27 Jan. 3: [I]n the Housing Department homes where we stop, few of the adults have jobs. The children who grow up here bear the taunts of ‘housos’ from other, more privileged children.
2001		Google Groups: aus.cars 22 Dec. 🌐 The Housing Commission has a new strategy of spreading the houso’s around the place these days. Now we have houso’s in amongst the private home owners because they get in to less fights this way, but it obviously has other problems.
2005		Google Groups: aus.motorcycles 13 Mar. 🌐 I admit some people are forced below the poverty line by things beyond their control - this doesnt make them houso’s, it makes them disadvantaged.
2006		Australian 20 May Mag. 26: He was given a ‘houso’ flat in the Druitt but didn’t stay long.
2017		Stay at Home Mume 🌐 So yeah i think we r like upper class bogan and not full blown ‘housos’ type bogans!