List of human habitation forms
This is a list of (semi)-permanent, mobile and misc. types of human habitation. Such an exhaustive list is at times used for national census, where counting every human, however housed (or not housed, as with homeless humans), is mandatory.
Permanent
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Inn
- Insula
- Log cabin
- Log house
- Longhouse
- Mansion
- Mini dorm
- Monastery
- Moroccan riad
- Motel
- Nursing home
- Orphanage
- Palace
- Pension
- Pit-house
- Prison
- Psychiatric hospital
- Public house
- Resort
- Retirement home
- Roundhouse
- Ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn
- Safari lodge
- Sanatorium
- Sod house
- Stilt house
- Timeshare
- Train station
- Tree house
- Turbaza
- Underground living
- Vacation rental
- Villa
Semi-permanent
Mobile
- Airplane
- Automobile
- Bender tent
- Boat
- Bus
- Campervan
- Campsite
- Car
- Ferry
- Hot air balloon
- Houseboat, including float houses
- Mobile home
- Portable building
- Public transport
- Recreational vehicle
- RV park
- Ship
- Spacecraft
- Tent
- Train
- Passenger car, also called a train carriage
- Sleeping car
- Travel trailer
Traditional tent types
Light-weight materials
Homelessness
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
- Sanctuary
- Shelter (building)
- Single room occupancy
- Tourism
- Underground living
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme
External links
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