Draft:Outline of housing
Appearance
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to housing:
Housing – social problem 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.
Types of housing
[edit]Forms of human habitation
[edit]List of human habitation forms
- Dwelling – Unit of accommodation
- Apartment – Self-contained housing unit occupying part of a building
- House – Building comprising a single dwelling
- Condominium – Form of ownership of real property
- Cooperative housing – Type of housing development that emphasizes self-governance and quasi-communal living
- Tiny house – Architectural movement advocating smaller living spaces
- Lodging – Use of a short-term dwelling, usually by renting the living space
- Shelter (building) – Basic architectural structure providing protection
Housing by availability
[edit]Housing by legality
[edit]Housing by region
[edit]- Housing in Africa
- Housing in Asia
- Housing in Australasia
- Housing in Australia
- Housing in New Zealand
- Housing in Europe
- Housing in the Middle East
- Housing in North America
- Housing in Barbuda
- Housing in the United States
- Housing in South America
- Housing in Brazil
History of housing
[edit]Politics of housing
[edit]Homelessness
[edit]Housing legislation
[edit]- Canada housing legislation
- United Kingdom housing legislation
- United States housing legislation
- Fair Housing Act – Enacted as Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968
- Housing Act of 1937
- Housing Act of 1949
- Housing Act of 1954
- Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
- Housing and Community Development Act of 1987
- Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
- Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965
- Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968
- Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970
- Housing for Older Persons Act – 1995
- National Housing Act of 1934
Housing programs
[edit]- Million Programme – Swedish housing programme
- Section 8 (housing) – Part of the Housing Act of 1937 (US)
- Habitat for Humanity – Nonprofit organization devoted to building affordable housing
Economics of housing
[edit]- Housing Affordability Index
- Housing industry – Application of economic techniques to real estate markets
- Informal sector – Economic activity unregulated by government
- Median household income – Macroeconomic indicator
- United States housing bubble – Economic bubble
Housing organizations
[edit]- Habitat for Humanity – Nonprofit organization devoted to building affordable housing
Housing publications
[edit]Journals about housing
[edit]Persons influential in housing
[edit]Housing advocates
[edit]- Catherine Bauer Wurster – American public housing advocate and educator
- Jocelyn Frere Adburgham – British architect and town planner
- Uno Åhrén – Swedish architect and city planner
- Cathy Crowe – Canadian homeless advocate
- Marcel van Dam – Dutch politician
- Willem Drees – Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1958
- Catherine Amelia Ewing – American educator, missionary, philanthropist, activist, social reformer (1822–1897)
- Albion Fellows Bacon – American reformer and writer (1865–1933)
- Ernest Flagg – American architect (1857–1947)
- Enneüs Heerma – Dutch politician (1944–1999)
- Miranda Hill – English social reformer
- Octavia Hill – English social reformer (1838–1912)
- Elijah Hoole (architect) – English architect of Methodist churches, settlement halls and social housing
- Lucy Dorsey Iams – American welfare worker (1855-1924)
- Stanley M. Isaacs – American politician
- Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh – Irish businessman and philanthropist
- Basil Jellicoe – British reformer
- Eddie Bernice Johnson – American politician (1934–2023)
- Leroy Looper – American activist (1924–2011)
- Peter Marcuse#Views on housing – German-American lawyer and professor (1928–2022)
- Barbara McInnis – American nurse and advocate for homeless people
- Cary Moon – American political activist (born 1963)
- Nikkita Oliver – American civil rights activist, lawyer and educator
- Paul Roldan – American housing reformer
- Seebohm Rowntree – British philanthropist industrialist and sociologist writer
- Michael Shapcott – Canadian academic
- Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes – American architect (1867–1944)
- Fanny Talbot – English philanthropist (1824–1917)
- Joop den Uyl – Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 to 1977
- Joris in 't Veld – Dutch politician (1895–1981)