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A Home is a place of abode that is intended for habitation by a household.
- Context:
- It can range from being an Occupied Housing Unit to being a Vacant Housing Unit.
- It can range from being a Owned Dwelling to being a Rental Dwelling.
- It can be associated with a Household Lodging Expense.
- It can include a House, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
- It can be associated with a Housing Unit Measure.
- It can embody a strong sense of belonging and cultural identity, especially in communal and traditional societies.
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- See: Residential Area, Homelessness, Family, Longhouse, Building, Home Construction, Residential Construction, House Construction Costs, Estate Agent, Real Estate Development, Residential Area, Housing Starts, Housing Tenure, Affordable Housing.
References
2024
- (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/home Retrieved:2024-6-11.
- A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or more human occupants, and sometimes various companion animals. It is a fully- or semi-sheltered space and can have both interior and exterior aspects to it.Homes provide sheltered spaces, for instance rooms, where domestic activity can be performed such as sleeping, preparing food, eating and hygiene as well as providing spaces for work and leisure such as remote working, studying and playing. Physical forms of homes can be static such as a house or an apartment, mobile such as a houseboat, trailer or yurt or digital such as virtual space. The aspect of 'home' can be considered across scales; from the micro scale showcasing the most intimate spaces of the individual dwelling and direct surrounding area to the macro scale of the geographic area such as town, village, city, country or planet. The concept of 'home' has been researched and theorized across disciplines – topics ranging from the idea of home, the interior, the psyche, liminal space, contested space to gender and politics. The home as a concept expands beyond residence as contemporary lifestyles and technological advances redefine the way the global population lives and works.The concept and experience encompasses the likes of exile, yearning, belonging, homesickness and homelessness.
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/home Retrieved:2016-4-27.
- A home is a dwelling-place used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for an individual, family, household or several families in a tribe. It is often a house, apartment, or other building, or alternatively a mobile home, houseboat, yurt or any other portable shelter. Homes typically provide areas and facilities for sleeping, preparing food, eating and hygiene. Larger groups may live in a nursing home, children's home, convent or any similar institution. A homestead also includes agricultural land and facilities for domesticated animals. Where more secure dwellings are not available, people may live in the informal and sometimes illegal shacks found in slums and shanty towns. More generally, "home" may be considered to be a geographic area, such as a town, village, suburb, city, or country. Transitory accommodation in a treatment facility for a few weeks is not normally considered permanent enough to replace a more stable location as 'home'. In 2005, 100 million people worldwide were estimated to be homeless.