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
  • Yaodong
• 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
  • Apartment hotel
  • Boutique hotel
  • Capsule hotel
  • Casino hotel
  • Love 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
  • Slab hut
• Inn
• Insula
• Log cabin
• Log house
• Longhouse
• Mansion
• Mini dorm
• Moroccan riad
• Motel
• Nursing home
• Orphanage
• Palace
• Pension
• Pit-house
• Prison
  • Cell
• Public house
  • Inn
• 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

• Beach hut
• Bivouac shelter
• Emergency shelter
• Igloo
• Lean-to
• Mobile home
• Ramada
• Snow cave
• Tent city
• Quinzhee

Mobile

• Bender tent
• Campervan
• Campsite
• Houseboat, including float houses
• Mobile home
• Portable building
• Recreational vehicle
• RV park
• Tent
• Travel trailer

Traditional tent types

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

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