List of human habitation forms

This is a list of stationary and mobile types of human habitation. Such an exhaustive list is at times used for national census, where counting every person, however housed (or not housed, as with homeless persons), is mandatory.

Stationary

• Airport
• Barracks, may also be mobile, a cantonment or military camp
• Bed and breakfast, or B&B (French: Chambre d'hôtes)
• Boarding house
• Bothy
• Bungalow
• Castle
• Cave
  • Yaodong
• Chalet
• Château
• Choultry
• Condominium
• Converted barn
• Cottage
• County jail
• Domus
• Dormitory
• Dugout
• Earth house
• Earth sheltering
• Farm stay
• Flophouse
• Guest house
• Hospital
• Hospitality service, or hospitality exchange
• Hostal
• Hostel
• Hotel
  • Apartment hotel
  • Boutique hotel
  • Capsule hotel
  • Casino hotel
  • Love hotel
• House, or home
• Housebarn
• Housing tenure or rented accommodation
  • Apartment
  • Bedsit
  • Communal apartment
  • Council house
  • Flatshare, also called shared housing or shared accommodation
  • Public housing
  • Share house
  • Single room occupancy
  • Tenancy
• Hut
  • Slab hut
• Inn
• Insula
• Log cabin
• Log house
• Longhouse
• Mansion
• Mini dorm
• Monastery
• Moroccan riad
• Motel
• Nursing home
• Orphanage
• Palace
• Pension
• Pit-house
• Prison
  • Cell
• Psychiatric hospital
• Public house
  • Inn
• Resort
• Retirement home
• Roundhouse
• Ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn
• Sanatorium
• Sod house
• Stilt house
• Timeshare
• Train station
• Tree house
• Turbaza
• Underground living
• Vacation rental
• Villa

Semi-permanent

• Beach hut
• Bivouac shelter
• Emergency shelter
• Igloo
• Mobile home
• Ramada
• Snow cave
• Tent city
• Quinzhee

Mobile

• Airplane
• Automobile
• Bender tent
• Boat
• Bus
• Campervan
• Campsite
• Ferry
• Hot air balloon
• Houseboat, including float houses
• Mobile home
• Portable building
• Public transport
• Recreational vehicle
• RV park
• Ship
  • Cruise ship
  • Ocean liner
• Spacecraft
• Tent
• Train
  • Passenger car, also called a train carriage
  • Sleeping car
• Travel trailer

Traditional tent types

• Bell tent
• Chum
• Fly
• Goahti
• Kohte
• Lavvu
• Loue
• Nomadic tents
• Pandal
• Sibley tent
• Tarp tent
• Tipi
• Wigwam
• Yurt

Lightweight materials

• Bivouac sack
• Blanket
• Roof tent
• Sleeping bag
• Tarp tent
• Tarpaulin

Homelessness

• Barn
• Bus station
• Bus stop
• Cardboard box (housing)
• Dumpster
• Homeless shelter
• Refugee camp
• Shipping container
• Sleeping rough
• Squatting
• Stable

See also

• Accommodation (disambiguation)
• Amusement park
• Architecture
• Building
• Buy to let
• Destination spa
• Discrimination against the homeless
• Dwelling
• Earthquake engineering
• Habitation (disambiguation)
• Homelessness
• Hospitality industry
• House in multiple occupation
• List of building types
• List of buildings and structures
• List of house types
• Lodging
• Modular building
• Occupancy
• Open-source architecture
• Prefabricated building
• Shelter (building)
• Single room occupancy
• Tourism
• Underground living
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme