Housing Unit

AKA: Household Lodging, Dwelling.
Context:
- It is a constituent component of the housing stock.
- The level of economic activity in home construction is reported as housing starts counted in terms of housing units.
- As a dwelling, it can range from being an Occupied Housing Unit to being a Vacant Housing Unit.
- It can include a house, an apartment, a Mobile Home, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
- A boat, tent, van, etc. can qualify if it is occupied as someone's usual place of residence.
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See: Home, Living Quarters, Household, Census, American Housing Survey, Decennial Census, Housing Inventory, Residential Construction, Dwelling Characteristics, Housing Affordability, Housing Price Index, Homeownership Rate, Rental Vacancy Rate.

References

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/definitions.pdf
- QUOTE: ... A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters. ...

https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=1263
- QUOTE: A housing unit is a separate and independent place of abode intended for habitation by a single household, or one not intended for habitation but occupied as living quarters by a household at the time of the census. Thus it may be an occupied or vacant dwelling, an occupied mobile or improvised housing unit or any other place occupied as living quarters by a household at the time of the census. This category includes housing of various levels of permanency and acceptability.

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/home_construction Retrieved:2021-2-5.
- ... The level of economic activity in the home-construction section is reported as housing starts, though this is contrarily denominated in terms of distinct habitation units, rather than distinct construction efforts. 'Housing' is also the chosen term in the related concepts of housing tenure, affordable housing, and housing unit (aka dwelling).