"housing barracks" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to refer to military housing, such as when talking about a soldier's accommodations. For example, you could say, "The military provided housing barracks for the troops."
The control variables used in our study were: age (years), length of employment (years of service), education level (lower vs equal/higher than high school), rank (officer vs supervisor/technical staff), origin (Northern or Southern Italy), housing (in barracks or home), marital status (single/divorced vs married/cohabiting) and presence of children (no/yes).
German authorities in the western town of Schwerte were criticised earlier this year for suggesting that 21 asylum seekers be housed in barracks at Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp.
She said in an interview that she had bought the gun because she was mugged when she was 17 and that she carried it at night because migrant workers were living in her neighborhood on the outskirts of Moscow, housed in barracks near construction sites.
But set in the Flint Hills, a never-plowed expanse of rolling hillocks that relieve eyes weary of dryland farms and tumbleweeds, the base contains a gem among its neat rows of 19th century stone houses and barracks.
They were mainly infantry, cavalry and mounted infantry, and were neither housed in barracks nor subject to full military discipline.
Returning soldiers using the G.I. Bill after World War II stressed the state university system to the point that a Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida (TBUF) was opened on the campus of the Florida State College for Women with the men housed in barracks on nearby Dale Mabry Field.
The severe death toll in 1833 34 was a first harbinger of a disastrous relationship in the Caribbean between cholera epidemics and the 2 major imported populations typically housed in barracks, often weakened in advance of their arrival by shipboard conditions and after their arrival by the encounter with yellow fever and plague: slaves and colonial soldiers.
Inmates are housed in barracks-style rooms, not cells.
Six months later, suicide bombers blew up a barracks housing U.S. Marines who had deployed to oversee the Palestinian withdrawal.
VLADIMIR, Russia — In Russian prisons, the inmates are divided into barracks housing a hundred or so men without regard to the severity of their crimes.
