List of human habitation forms

A list of stationary and mobile types of human habitation.

Stationary

• Airport
• Apartment
• Apartment hotel
• Barn conversion
• Barracks, may also be mobile, a cantonment or military camp
• Bed and breakfast, or B&B (French: Chambre d'hôtes), may also be in a mobile structure
• Bedsit
• Boarding house
• Bothy
• Bungalow
• Bus station
• Bus stop
• Capsule hotel
• Casino hotel
• Cave
• Cell (prison)
• Choultry
• Condominium, or timeshare
• Cottage
• County jail
• Dormitory
• Extended stay hotel
• Farmstay
• Flatshare, also called shared housing or shared accommodation
• Flophouse
• Guest house, or guesthouse
• Hospital
• Hospitality service, or hospitality exchange
• Hostel
• Hotel
• House, home or abode - see List of house types
• Inn
• Log cabin
• Love hotel, fashion hotel, boutique hotel
• Mini dorm
• Minshuku, a Japanese inn
• Monastery
• Motel
• Longhouse
• Nursing home
• Palace
• Pension (lodging)
• Prison
• Psychiatric hospital
• Public house
• Public housing
• Sanatorium
• Sleeping car, on a train
• Resort
• Retirement home
• Roundhouse
• Ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn
• Slab Hut
• Train station
• Tree house
• Turbaza
• Underground house
• Vacation rental, may also be in a mobile structure
• Villa

Semi-permanent

• Bivouac shelter
• Emergency shelter
• Igloo
• Ramada (shelter)
• Snow cave

Mobile

• Airplane
• Bender tent
• Boat, ship, ferry, cruise ship or ocean liner
• Bus
• Camper, caravan, or trailer
• Car
• Caravan parks
• Houseboat
• Portable building
• Public transport
• Recreational Vehicle, a camper or caravan (travel trailer) and mobile home

Traditional tent types

• Bell tent
• Chum
• Fly
• Goahti
• Kohte
• Lavvu, Sami tent
• Loue
• Nomadic tents
• Pandal
• Sibley tent
• Tarp tent
• Tipi
• Wigwam
• Yurt

Lightweight materials

• Tarpaulin
• Bivouac sack
• Blanket
• Roof tent
• Sleeping bag
• Tarp tent

Homelessness

• Barn
• Cardboard box (housing)
• Derelict (building)
• Dumpster
• Shipping container
• Sleeping rough
• Stable

See also

• Accommodation
• Amusement park
• Architecture
• Building
• Buy to let
• Campsite
• Discrimination against the homeless
• Destination spa
• Dwelling
• Earthquake engineering
• Habitation
• Heater
• Homelessness
• Hospitality industry
• House in multiple occupation
• List of house types
• List of building types
• List of buildings and structures
• Lodging
• Modular building
• Occupancy
• Prefabricated building
• Shelter
• Single room occupancy
• Student accommodation
• Vacancy
• Tourism
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme

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