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Plans for a detached house showing the social functions for each room
A home is a dwelling-place used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for a
n individual, family, household or several families in a tribe. It is often a ho
use, apartment, or other building, or alternatively a mobile home, houseboat, yu
rt or any other portable shelter. Homes typically provide areas and facilities f
or sleeping, preparing food, eating and hygiene. Larger groups may live in a nur
sing home, children's home, convent or any similar institution. A homestead also
includes agricultural land and facilities for domesticated animals. Where more
secure dwellings are not available, people may live in the informal and sometime
s illegal shacks found in slums and shanty towns. More generally, "home" may be
considered to be a geographic area, such as a town, village, suburb, city, or co
untry.
Transitory accommodation in a treatment facility for a few weeks is not normally
considered permanent enough to replace a more stable location as 'home'.[citati
on needed] In 2005, 100 million people worldwide were estimated to be homeless.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Types
2.1 Buildings
2.2 Portable shelter
2.3 For larger groups
2.4 Informal
3 Occupants
4 Tenure
4.1 Owner-occupancy
4.2 Rental accommodation
4.3 Squatting
5 Homelessness
6 Psychological significance
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links
History[edit]
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Buildings such as huts and longhouses have been used for living since the late N
eolithic.[1]
Types[edit]
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Further information: List of human habitation forms
Buildings[edit]
1910 American homestead
A house is a building that functions as a home for humans [2] ranging from simpl
e dwellings such as rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to complex, fixed structu
res of wood, brick, or other materials containing plumbing, ventilation and elec
trical systems.[3][4] Most conventional modern houses will at least contain a be
droom, bathroom, kitchen or cooking area, and a living room. In traditional agri
culture-oriented societies, domestic animals such as chickens or larger livestoc
k (like cattle) may share part of the house with humans. The social unit that li
ves in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a household is a family u

nit of some kind, although households may also be other social groups or individ
uals. The design and structure of homes is also subject to change as a consequen
ce of globalization, urbanization and other social, economic, demographic, and t
echnological reasons.[5] Various other cultural factors also influence the build
ing style and patterns of domestic space.
A terraced house[a] is a style of medium-density housing where a row of identica
l or mirror-image houses share side walls, while semi-detached housing consists
of pairs of houses built side-by-side or (less commonly) back-to-back,[6] sharin
g a party wall and with mirrored layouts.
An apartment (in American English) or a flat (in British English) is a self-cont
ained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part o
f a building. Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment hou
se (in American English), block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionall
y mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartmen
ts for rent. In Scotland it is called a block of flats or if its a traditional s
andstone building a tenement, which has a pejorative connotation elsewhere. Apar
tments may be owned by an owner/occupier by leasehold tenure or rented by tenant
s (two types of housing tenure).
A homestead consists of a dwelling, often a farm house, together with other buil
dings and associated land, and facilities for domesticated animals.
Portable shelter[edit]
A houseboat on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington
Mobile home
Houseboat
Yurt
For larger groups[edit]
Children's home
Convent
Informal[edit]
Makeshift homes in Los Angeles
Shacks found in slums and shanty towns
Occupants[edit]
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Further information: Household and Roommate
A home's occupants may be a single individual, a family, household, or several f
amilies in a tribe. Occupants may be part of other groups, such as nursing home
residents or children in an orphanage.
Tenure[edit]
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Main article: Housing tenure
The financial arrangements under which someone has the right to live in a home a
re, most frequently, tenancy, in which rent is paid to a landlord, and owner-occ
upancy. Mixed forms of tenure are also possible.
Owner-occupancy[edit]
Further information: Owner-occupancy
Rental accommodation[edit]
Further information: Renting
Squatting[edit]
Main article: Squatting
Squatting is an action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land and/
or a building
usually residential[7] that the 'squatter does not own, rent or ot
herwise have lawful permission to use.

Homelessness[edit]
Main article: homelessness
Homeless people in San'ya district, Tokyo, Japan
Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 contain
s the following text regarding housing and quality of living: "Everyone has the
right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself
and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necess
ary social services..."[8]
In 2004, the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, defined
a homeless household as "those households without a shelter that would fall with
in the scope of living quarters. They carry their few possessions with them, sle
eping in the streets, in doorways or on piers, or in another space, on a more or
less random basis."[9]
In 2009, at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Conference of Euro
pean Statisticians recommended that homeless people are classified in two broad
groups (noting that that this would not provide a complete definition):[10]
(a) Primary homelessness (or rooflessness). This category includes persons livin
g in the streets without a shelter that would fall within the scope of living qu
arters.
(b) Secondary homelessness. This category may include persons with no place of u
sual residence who move frequently between various types of accommodations (incl
uding dwellings, shelters and institutions for the homeless or other living quar
ters). This category includes persons living in private dwellings but reporting n
o usual address on their census form.
In 2005, 100 million people worldwide were estimated to be homeless,[11] althoug
h some prefer the term 'houseless' or 'unsheltered'.
Psychological significance[edit]
A home is generally a place that is close to the heart of the owner, and can bec
ome a prized possession. It has been argued that psychologically "The strongest
sense of home commonly coincides geographically with a dwelling. Usually the sen
se of home attenuates as one moves away from that point, but it does not do so i
n a fixed or regular way."[12] Since it can be said that humans are generally cr
eatures of habit, the state of a person's home has been known to physiologically
influence their behavior, emotions, and overall mental health.[13] People may b
ecome homesick when they leave their home over an extended period of time. Place
s like homes can trigger self-reflection, thoughts about who someone is or used
to be or who they might become.[citation needed] These types of reflections also
occur in places where there is a collective historical identity, such as Gettys
burg or Ground Zero.[14]
Popular sayings include "a man's home is his castle", "there is no place like ho
me", "home sweet home", "to be at home", "home away from home", "make yourself a
t home", "you can never go home again",[15] "home is where the heart is"[16] and
"home is where you hang your hat".[17]
The word home can be used for various types of residential community institution
s in which people can live, such as nursing, retirement homes for seniors, foste
r homes, etc.[citation needed] Short-term accommodation in a treatment facility
for several weeks is unlikely to be considered 'home'.
Homes may be lost in many ways, such as natural disasters[18] or wars.
See also[edit]
Human habitats (Category)

Ancestral home
ARCHIVE Institute
Home automation
Home network
Home improvement
Home maintenance
Homemaker
List of countries by home ownership rate
Model home
Real estate
Share house
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Urbanization
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ortal
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ also known as a terrace house (UK), townhouse (US), row houses or link
ed houses
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Skara Brae". Orkneyjar. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
Jump up ^ American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home By
Les Walker. Overlook Press, July 1, 1998
Jump up ^ Schoenauer, Norbert (2000). 6,000 Years of Housing (rev. ed.) (New Yor
k: W.W. Norton & Company).
Jump up ^ "housing papers" (PDF). clerk.house.gov. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
Jump up ^ Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb (2015). Domestic Space and Socio-spatial R
elationships in Rural Pakistan. South Asia Research 35(2):214-234.
Jump up ^ https://www.ura.gov.sg/circulars/text/dchbr/pt1landedhousing-dchbr.pdf
Jump up ^ Roberts, Chris (2006), Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind R
hyme, Thorndike Press, ISBN 0-7862-8517-6
Jump up ^ "Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights". United Nati
ons. 10 December 1948.
Jump up ^ "United Nations Demographic Yearbook review: National reporting of hou
sehold characteristics, living arrangements and homeless households : Implicatio
ns for international recommendations" (PDF). United Nations, Department of Econo
mic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, Demographic and Social Statistics B
ranch. 14 April 2004.
Jump up ^ "Enumeration of Homeless People" (PDF). United Nations Economic and So
cial Council. Economic Commission for Europe Conference of European Statistician
s. 18 August 2009.
Jump up ^ "Homelessness around the world". Boston Globe. 14 December 2011.
Jump up ^ Terkenli, T. S. (1995). "Home as a Region". Geographical Review 85 (3)
: 324 334. JSTOR 215276.
Jump up ^ Boutruche, Samuel; Bourgeois, Stphanie and Lyamouri-Bajja, Nadine (2008
). Raising Young Refugees' Voices in Europe and Beyond. Council of Europe. p. 35
. ISBN 9789287163080.
Jump up ^ Burton-Christie, Douglas (2009). "Place-Making as Contemplative Practi
ce". Anglican Theological Reviews 91 (3): 347 371.
Jump up ^ "Home". idioms.thefreedictionary.com.
Jump up ^ "Home is where the heart is". Retrieved 4 December 2012.
Jump up ^ "Idiom: Home is where you lay your hat". Retrieved 4 December 2012.
Jump up ^ Teves, Hranjski, Oliver, Hrvoje (7 December 2012). "Death toll from Ph
ilippine typhoon climbs past 500". USA Today. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
External links[edit]
The dictionary definition of home at Wiktionary
Quotations related to Home at Wikiquote
Media related to Home at Wikimedia Commons
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