Portal:Housing

The House and Housing portal Housing, or more generally living spaces, refers to the construction and assigned usage of houses or buildings collectively, for the purpose of sheltering people — the planning or provision delivered by an authority, with related meanings. The social issue is of ensuring that members of society have a home in which to live, whether this is a house, or some other kind of dwelling, lodging, or shelter. Many governments have one or more housing authorities, sometimes also called a housing ministry, or housing department. Selected article - The House of Tomorrow at 241 West Lake Front Drive, Beverly Shores, Indiana, was originally part of Chicago's 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition. Designed as the house of the future, this house included its own airplane hangar. Glass walls offered views from every angle and so taxed the experimental air conditioning system that the cooling system failed. Read more... Did you know - Related Portals Architecture Selected image - 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. 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. 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 Aerial view of tract housing developments near Markham, Ontario The Josiah Day House in West Springfield, Massachusetts is an example of a Saltbox-style home An A-Frame house in Duluth, Minnesota Renaissance townhouses in Gdańsk, Poland 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. A ranch-style house in Salinas, California, U.S. WikiProjects WikiProject Home Living WikiProject Architecture General images - The following are images from various housing-related articles on Wikipedia. Travel trailer or camper Frutighaus Mobile home Related articles Part of a series on Living spaces Main House (detached) • Apartment • Housing projects • Tenement • Condominium • Mixed-use development (live-work) • Hotel • Hostel (travellers' hotel) • Castles • Squat • Flophouse • Shack • Slum • Shanty town Issues Affordability • Public housing • Rent Homelessness • Vagrancy • Housing discrimination • Fair housing • Home ownership • Ownership equity • Subprime lending • Subsidized housing Society and Politics Housing subsidy • Rent control • Real estate economics • Redlining • Right to housing 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 ► 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 ► Skinny 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 ► Cave dwellings ► Central passage plan architecture ► Cliff dwellings ► Condominium ► Country houses ► Crescents (architecture) ► Dogtrot architecture ► Dower houses ► Dugouts ► Farmhouses ► Hall houses ► Hostels ► Houseboats ► I-houses ► Low-energy building ► Manor houses ► Market houses ► Traditional Native American dwellings ► Prefabricated houses ► Public housing ► Ranch house architecture ► Recreational vehicles ► Rumah adat ► Sod houses ► Stilt houses ► Toll houses ► Triple-decker apartment houses ► Villas House styles Select [►] to view subcategories ▼ House styles ► American architectural styles ► American Craftsman architecture ► American Foursquare architecture ► Art Nouveau houses ► Bungalow architecture ► Carpenter Gothic houses ► Central passage plan architecture ► Chinese architectural styles ► Dogtrot architecture ► Greek Revival houses ► Haitian architectural styles ► Israeli architectural styles ► 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 ► Triple-decker apartment houses ► Tudor Revival architecture ► Victorian architectural styles ► Villas Wikimedia 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. 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