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 iconic Habitat 67 in Montreal was an attempt to create affordable housing which failed largely because high market demand made the units too expensive for many tenants. The concentration of employment in Canada's largest cities and a trend towards urbanization continues to put pressure on housing affordability in the country. Affordability of housing in Canada presents a complex paradox. By 2004, 1.7 million Canadians had housing affordability issues, yet Canada is considered to be among the more affordable places to live, using market-oriented analyses of affordability such as those provided by the Royal Bank of Canada. Canadian government public policies intervene when affordability of housing is stressed to the point home ownership becomes inaccessible even to individuals with full-time employment. The continuum of affordable housing in Canada includes market (affordable rental housing, affordable home ownership), non-market (affordable rental housing, affordable home ownership), government-subsidized housing (emergency shelters, transitional housing and social housing). Measuring affordability of housing is complicated by Canada's vast physical and human geography which includes remote northern communities and affluent urban regions. Housing prices and construction costs have risen dramatically in Canada as they have elsewhere in the world. Income levels in the upper quintile have increased exponentially while those in lower quintiles have remained stagnant. The rising inequality gap presents a significant challenge for Canadian households who are "priced out" of rental and ownership housing markets. Read more... Did you know - Related Portals Architecture Selected image - 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 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 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. Renaissance townhouses in Gdańsk, Poland A ranch-style house in Salinas, California, U.S. A wood-frame American Foursquare house in Minnesota with dormer windows on each side and a large front porch 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. The Cube houses in Rotterdam, viewed from Blaak metro station WikiProjects WikiProject Home Living WikiProject Architecture General images - The following are images from various housing-related articles on Wikipedia. Travel trailer or camper Mobile home Frutighaus 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 ► Folk Victorian 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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