Affordable housingAffordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on affordable housing refers to mortgages and a number of forms that exist along a continuum – from emergency homeless shelters, to transitional housing, to non-market rental (also known as social or subsidized housing), to formal and informal rental, indigenous housing, and ending with affordable home ownership.
Prefabricated homePrefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled. Some current prefab home designs include architectural details inspired by postmodernism or futurist architecture. "Prefabricated" may refer to buildings built in components (e.g. panels), modules (modular homes) or transportable sections (manufactured homes), and may also be used to refer to mobile homes, i.
Mouvement des micromaisonsvignette|Micromaison de Portland (Oregon). Le mouvement des micromaisons (aussi orthographié micro-maisons), parfois désigné par son nom anglais tiny house movement, est un mouvement social et architectural prônant la simplicité volontaire par l'habitation de petites maisons. Au Japon, ce mouvement architectural a explosé dans les années 1990, et le terme qualifie ces micromaisons. Aux États-Unis, la taille moyenne d'une maison unifamiliale est passée de en 1978 à en 2007 et ce, malgré la réduction de la taille des familles américaines sur cette période.
Alternative housingAlternative housing is a category of domicile structures that are built or designed outside of the mainstream norm e.g., town homes, single family homes and apartment complexes. In modern days, alternative housing commonly takes the form of tiny houses, dome homes, pyramid-shaped houses, earth sheltered homes, residential tree houses, abandoned factories and hospitals and even up-cycled vans or buses. The motivation to create alternative homes can arise from destitution or lack of resources to buy or rent a typical home and therefore include improvised shacks in shantytowns, buses, cars and tent-like structures.
PréfabricationLa préfabrication est une technique de construction qui consiste à fabriquer à l'écart de l'ouvrage les éléments constitutifs, puis à les assembler sur le site de l'ouvrage pour le former. Ceci s'applique généralement à des éléments répétitifs et/ou complexes, comme des maisons ou des immeubles (HLM notamment). La préfabrication « ouverte » est la fabrication d'éléments standards devant s'assembler à d'autres. La préfabrication « fermée » est la fabrication des sous-ensembles les uns en fonction des autres pour faire le bâtiment dans sa totalité.
