Wikidwelling

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[]

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

Lightweight materials

Homelessness[]

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

See also[]


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