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In casual language, the terms home and house are often used interchangeably. In some instances, their meanings do indeed overlap. However, just as not every neighborhood is a community, so also not every house is a home. A house is a ...
- Abandonment
- Affordability
- Behavioral Aspects
- Cohousing
- American Housing Survey
- Exurbia
- Blockbusting
- Eminent Domain
- Single-Parent Households
- Environment and Housing
- Homelessness
- Appraisal Industry
- Ancient Housing
- Building Cycle
- Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
- Accessory Dwelling Units
- Depreciation of Property
- Gautreaux Program
- Demand-Side Subsidies
- Energy Conservation
- Housing Careers
- Adaptive Reuse
- Blight
- Employer-Assisted Housing
- Castle Doctrine
- Common Interest Development
- Centrally Planned Housing Systems
- Growth Machines
- Discrimination
- Farmers Home Administration (Rural Housing Service)
- Women as Housing Producers
- Environmental Contamination: Asbestos
- Hoovervilles
- First-Time Home Buyer
- Automated Valuation Model
- Building Permit
- Equity
- Aging in Place
- Lease
- Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
- Moving to Opportunity
- Green Building
- Shared-Equity Homeownership
- Brownfields
- Displacement
- Extended-Stay Motels
- Commuting
- Community Development Block Grant
- Colonias
- Housing Bubble
- Exclusionary Zoning
- Federal Government
- Women as Users of Housing
- Environmental Contamination: Lead
- Single-Room Occupancy Housing
- Homeownership
- Building Codes
- Consolidated Plans
- Mortgage Credit Certificates
- Assisted Living
- Multifamily Housing
- Pruitt-Igoe
- Supply-Side Subsidies
- Tenure Sectors
- Community Reinvestment Act
- Eviction
- Fair Market Rent
- Crime Prevention
- Community Development Corporations
- Global Strategy for Shelter
- Housing Demand
- Fair Housing Act
- Federal Housing Administration
- Environmental Contamination: Mold
- Tent Cities
- Liens
- Computer-Aided Design
- Home Improvement
- Mortgage Finance
- Congregate Housing
- Rent Control
- Public Housing
- Gentrification
- Filtering
- Foreclosures
- Crowding
- Community Land Trust
- Hedonic Pricing Model
- Housing Starts
- Hispanic Americans
- Government-Sponsored Enterprises
- Environmental Contamination: Radon
- Multiple Listing Service
- Construction Technology
- Housing Finance Agencies
- Mortgage Insurance
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities
- Rent Strikes
- Public-Private Housing Partnership
- High-Rise Housing
- Not in My Back Yard (NIMBY)
- Housing Costs
- Cultural Aspects
- Community-Based Housing
- Hogan
- Housing Supply
- Housing Courts
- HOPE VI
- Environmental Contamination: Toxic Waste
- Property Rights
- Decision Models for Housing and Community Development
- Landscape Architecture
- Mortgage Revenue Bonds
- Dementia
- Residential Hotels
- Historic Preservation
- Obsolescence
- Housing Trust Funds
- Feng Shui
- Company Housing
- Household
- Infrastructure
- Inclusionary Zoning
- Housing Act of 1949
- Environmental Hazards: Earthquakes
- Property Tax
- Disaster-Resistant Housing
- Maintenance
- Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Disabilities, Housing of Persons with
- Residential Property Management
- Homestead
- Substandard Housing
- Impact Fees
- Home
- Condominium
- Housing Abroad: Africa
- Levittowns
- Mount Laurel
- Housing Act of 1954
- Environmental Hazards: Flooding
- Refinancing
- Earth-Sheltered Housing
- Savings and Loan Industry
- Negative Amortization
- Elderly
- Incumbent Upgrading
- Vacancy Rate
- Linkage
- Housing Adjustment Theory
- Cooperative Housing
- Housing Abroad: Asia
- McMansion
- Predatory Lending
- Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968
- Environmental Hazards: Hurricanes
- Warranties
- Flexible Housing
- Proposition 13
- Home Care
- Infill Housing
- Shared Group Housing
- Immigration and Housing
- Gated Community
- Housing Abroad: Canada
- Mixed-Use Development
- Redlining
- President's Committee on Urban Housing (Kaiser Commission)
- Health Codes
- Housing Codes
- Second Mortgage
- Hospice Care
- Mixed-Income Housing
- Shelter Poverty
- Migration
- Homeowners’ Association
- Housing Abroad: Central and Eastern Europe
- New Towns
- Restrictive Covenants
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974
- Indoor Air Quality
- HUD Minimum Property Standards
- Subprime Mortgage Crisis
- Nursing Homes
- Model Cities Program
- Usury Laws
- Mortgage Fraud
- Housing Counseling
- Housing Abroad: Latin America
- Open Space and Parks
- Right to Housing
- Resolution Trust Corporation
- Restoration of Damaged Housing
- In Situ Construction
- Tax Expenditures
- Retirement Communities
- Tax Increment Financing
- Workforce Housing
- Postoccupancy Evaluation
- Land Bank
- Housing Abroad: Middle East
- Real Estate Developers and Housing
- Segregation
- United States Census Bureau
- Slums
- Innovation in Housing
- Tax Incentives
- Reverse-Equity Mortgage
- Urban Redevelopment
- Residential Autobiographies
- Limited-Equity Cooperatives
- Housing Abroad: Western and Northern Europe
- Smart Growth
- United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Lean Construction
- Second Homes
- Residential Location
- Military-Related Housing
- Housing Indicators
- Space Standards
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- Manufactured Housing
- Universal Design
- Residential Mobility
- Mutual Housing
- Housing Markets
- Speculation
- Model Codes
- Residential Preferences
- Native Americans
- Igloo
- Subdivision
- Modular Construction
- Tenant Organizing in the United States, History of
- Neighborhood Stabilization Program
- Kibbutz
- Subdivision Controls
- New Urbanism
- Nonprofit Housing
- Residential Satisfaction
- Suburbanization
- Operation Breakthrough
- Participatory Design and Planning
- World Bank
- Panic Room (Safe Room)
- Planned Unit Development
- Prefabrication
- Pueblos
- Smart House and Automation Technologies
- Religion and Housing
- Solar Housing
- Resident Management
- Rural Housing
- Self-Help Housing
- Slaves, Housing of
- Social Housing
- Squatter Settlements
- Student Housing
- Vernacular Housing
- Zoning
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