List of human habitation forms
This is a list of permanent, semi-permanent, mobile and miscelleneous types of human habitation. Such an exhaustive list is at times used for national census, where counting every human, however housed or not housed, is mandatory.
Permanent
- 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
- Domus
- Dormitory
- Dugout
- Earth house
- Earth sheltering
- Farm stay
- Flophouse
- Guest house
- 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
- Moroccan riad
- Motel
- Nursing home
- Orphanage
- Palace
- Pension
- Pit-house
- Prison
- Public house
- Retirement home
- Rooming house
- Roundhouse
- Ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn
- Safari lodge
- Sanatorium
- Sod house
- Stilt house
- Timeshare
- Tree house
- Turbaza
- Underground living
- Vacation rental
- Villa
Semi-permanent
Mobile
- Bender tent
- Campervan
- Campsite
- Houseboat, including float houses
- Mobile home
- Portable building
- Recreational vehicle
- RV park
- Tent
- Travel trailer
Traditional tent types
See also
- Building
- Buy to let
- Dwelling
- Habitation (disambiguation)
- House in multiple occupation
- List of building types
- Lists of buildings and structures
- List of house types
- Lodging
- Modular building
- Open-source architecture
- Prefabricated building
- Sanctuary
- Shed
- Shelter
- Single-room occupancy
- Vernacular architecture
External links
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