Portal:Housing

The House and Housing portal Common types of secondary dwelling units Housing refers to the usage and possibly construction of shelter as living spaces, individually or collectively. Housing is a basic human need and a human right, playing a critical role in shaping the quality of life for individuals, families, and communities, As such it is the main issue of housing organization and policy. (Full article...) Selected article - Rocinha is the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro (as well as in Brazil and the second largest slum and shanty town in Latin America). Although Favelas are found in urban areas throughout Brazil, many of the more famous ones exist in Rio. Favela (Portuguese: [fɐˈvɛlɐ]) is an umbrella name for several types of impoverished neighborhoods in Brazil. The term, which means slum or ghetto, was first used in the Slum of Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, which was built by soldiers who had lived under the favela trees in Bahia and had nowhere to live following the Canudos War. Some of the last settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighborhoods). Over the years, many former enslaved Africans moved in. Even before the first favela came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from the city and forced to live in the far suburbs. Most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Unable to find places to live, many people found themselves in favelas. Census data released in December 2011 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that in 2010, about 6 percent of the Brazilian population lived in favelas and other slums. Favelas are located in 323 of the 5,565 Brazilian municipalities. (Full article...) List of selected articles Mansion Mobile home Bay-and-gable Octagon house Modular building Castle Back-to-back house Octavia Hill Dormitory Waddesdon Manor Subprime mortgage crisis Osborne House Château United States housing bubble Mar del Plata style Upper Lusatian house Energy efficiency in British housing Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Affordable housing Apartment Condominium Housing cooperative Development of non-profit housing in the United States Public housing Public housing estates in Tseung Kwan O Log cabin Yurt Tree house Housing estate Housing discrimination Subsidized housing in the United States Manufactured housing Housing in Japan Trailer trash United States housing bubble Public housing in Australia Terraced house Farmhouse Florida Tropical House Cypress Log Cabin Armco-Ferro House House of Tomorrow (Indiana) Wieboldt-Rostone House Single room occupancy Man cave Boarding house Microapartment Hut Log house Affordable housing in Canada Great house Home automation Homelessness Twin Palms San Francisco housing shortage Home economics Helen Stuart Campbell Holden House Poorhouse Almshouse Pit-house Cliff dwelling Bungalow Terraced houses in the United Kingdom English country house Slum Shanty town Housing in the United Kingdom Eviction Mortgage loan Secondary suite Hostel Rooming house Tong lau Shophouse Palace Villa La Pausa Flophouse Did you know (auto generated) ... that the building housing the city council of Palembang, Indonesia, was claimed to be the "grandest" of its kind? ... that although the Wilbraham was built as an apartment building for bachelors, more women than men lived there by 1929? ... that the neighborhood of Colonia Federal was built by employees of the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior to create exclusive housing for civil servants? ... that entrepreneur Ian Schrager paid a record $9 million for two apartments at the Majestic in New York City, but he never lived there? ... that The Sims 2: Apartment Life is not about apartment life? ... that the Felix M. Warburg House was converted into the Jewish Museum after nearly being replaced by apartments? ... that you can see the sea from every apartment in Arlington House, Margate? ... that a former radio host got a free apartment in New York City's King Manor and lived there for more than three decades? Related Portals Selected image - Renaissance townhouses in Gdańsk, Poland A wood-frame American Foursquare house in Minnesota with dormer windows on each side and a large front porch The Cube houses in Rotterdam, viewed from Blaak metro station A Mandarin's House in Peking, China with Mr. Yang and family members on the balcony, circa 1860 The Josiah Day House in West Springfield, Massachusetts is an example of a Saltbox-style home Aerial view of tract housing developments near Markham, Ontario A ranch-style house in Salinas, California, U.S. Eleazer Arnold House, 1691, Lincoln, Rhode Island, an example of a Stone ender style of Rhode Island architecture that developed in the 17th century where one wall in a house is made up of a large stone chimney. Seattle box is a regional style of residential architecture that was popular in Seattle, Washington and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1900s. An A-Frame house in Duluth, Minnesota Cottage flats are a style of housing common in Scotland, where there are single floor dwellings at ground level, and similar dwellings on the floor above. More Did you know - WikiProjects WikiProject Home Living WikiProject Architecture WikiProject Housing and Tenant Rights General images - The following are images from various housing-related articles on Wikipedia. A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia (from List of house types) A-frame gable-style house, Portugal (from List of house types) Split-level house (from List of house types) Post frame Barndominium with standing seam metal roof. Large garage on the front side and living space on the back end. (from List of house types) Mobile home (from List of house types) reconstructed Viking longhouse (from List of house types) Southern I-House style home (from List of house types) Travel trailer or camper (from List of house types) Multi-storied attached adobe houses at Taos Pueblo (from List of house types) Brick ranch-style house (from List of house types) Vao tower house in Estonia, built in 15th century (from List of house types) Related articles Dwelling Home House List of house styles List of house types List of human habitation forms Lodging Residence Categories Houses Select [►] to view subcategories Houses Houses by city Houses by continent Houses by country Houses by year of completion Clergy houses Cottage orné Fictional houses Fortified houses Garages (residential) Gatehouses (architecture) Household hardware Historic houses House styles House types Imperial residences Manor houses Mock castles Octagon houses Official residences Pair-houses Palaces Prow houses Relocated houses Royal residences Ruined houses Safe houses Settlement houses Stone houses Villas Wooden houses House types Select [►] to view subcategories House types House types in Bangladesh House types in the United Kingdom A-frame houses and buildings Beach houses Boarding houses Castles Cave dwellings Central-passage houses Cliff dwellings Condominium Cottages Country houses Crescents (architecture) Dogtrot architecture Dower houses Dugouts Duplex buildings Farmhouses Fortified houses Hall houses Reportedly haunted houses Houseboats Houses with moats I-houses Low-energy building Manor houses Mansions Market houses Traditional Native American dwellings Prefabricated houses Public housing Ranch house architecture Recreational vehicles Rumah adat Sod houses Stilt houses Triple-decker apartment houses Villas House styles Select [►] to view subcategories House styles American architectural styles American Craftsman architecture American Foursquare architecture Antebellum architecture Art Nouveau houses Bungalow architecture Carpenter Gothic houses Central-passage houses Chinese architectural styles Dogtrot architecture English-Norman cottages Folk Victorian architecture Greek Revival houses Haitian architectural styles Houses with catslide gables Landhuizen Log houses Manor houses Palaces by architectural style Queen Anne architecture in the United States Ranch house architecture Saltbox architecture Shingle Style architecture Shingle Style houses Stone enders Territorial Revival architecture Townhouses Triple-decker apartment houses Tudor Revival architecture Victorian architectural styles Villas Wikimedia The following Wikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject: Commons Free media repository Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals Wikidata Free knowledge base Wikinews Free-content news Wikiquote Collection of quotations Wikisource Free-content library Wikiversity Free learning tools Wikivoyage Free travel guide Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus Tasks Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Stubs : Expand short articles about homes and housing Verify : Provide sources for unreferenced and poorly-sourced articles about homes and housing • Dwelling • Lodging • Residence Other : Improve this portal; feel free to add suggestions at the talk page • Join the Home Living WikiProject • Translate home and housing articles from another language to English –When a task is completed, please remove it from the list. Discover Wikipedia using portals List of all portals The arts portal Biography portal Current events portal Geography portal History portal Mathematics portal Science portal Society portal Technology portal Random portal WikiProject Portals