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. 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, is a social issue. Many governments have one or more housing authorities, sometimes also called a housing ministry, or housing department. (Full article...) Selected article - East side of the Place des Vosges in Paris, one of the earliest examples of terraced housing In architecture and city planning, a terrace or terraced house (UK) or townhouse (US) is a form of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, whereby a row of attached dwellings share side walls. In the United States they are also known as row houses or row homes, found in older cities such as Philadelphia and Baltimore. Terrace housing can be found throughout the world, though it is in abundance in Europe and Latin America, and extensive examples can be found in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Australia. The Place des Vosges in Paris (1605–1612) is one of the early examples of the style. Sometimes associated with the working class, historical and reproduction terraces have increasingly become part of the process of gentrification in certain inner-city areas. (Full article...) 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The Josiah Day House in West Springfield, Massachusetts is an example of a Saltbox-style home 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 An A-Frame house in Duluth, Minnesota Renaissance townhouses in Gdańsk, Poland 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 ranch-style house in Salinas, California, U.S. 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. WikiProjects WikiProject Home Living WikiProject Architecture General images - The following are images from various housing-related articles on Wikipedia. reconstructed Viking longhouse (from List of house types) Southern I-House style home (from List of house types) Split-level house (from List of house types) Travel trailer or camper (from List of house types) A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia (from List of house types) Multi-storied attached adobe houses at Taos Pueblo (from List of house types) A-frame gable-style house, Portugal (from List of house types) Mobile home (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) Frutighaus, housebarn (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 ► 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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