HOUSING In a broad sense, housing is a natural or artificial, used for animal beings find refuge and shelter from the elements of nature. Thus, it is home from the cave of a bear or of prehistoric man, to the great and magnificent buildings of modern humans.
Strictly speaking, it is called housing, human architectural work which meets the basic needs of modern man, with a minimum of comfort, ensuring objection against the cold, minimal privacy needs of every member of the family, safety from fire and against foreign income, etc.
Housing is a building whose main function is to provide shelter and room people and their belongings and property, protecting them from inclement weather and other natural hazards.
The human habitation at first did not differ from the animal, since both the nature used to look at her refuge, without transforming it. However, the man, his creative nature and culture that generates, used his physical effort and imagination to take the elements and transform them in physical space occupying large natural areas for housing increasingly sophisticated.
From the first houses built of mud, straw and stones, to large modern brick buildings, many years passed, and architecture is moving to provide more and more suitable dwellings to the requirements of the new companies, which will house there not only their physical creatures, but the elements that make your life more pleasant and helpful, made increasingly technological elements, which also include in their own apartment buildings (Goalkeepers electrical, alarms, opening and closing doors, etc.).
reside in the homes of people individually or with others, often forming families, united by a sense of belonging to this place physical, sheltering their material belongings and houses their emotions and memories, which will make this home in a home. In homes, members share meals, sleep, talk, rest and project. It is not only material but spiritual refuge.
There are houses built in cities or urban areas, generally smaller than those in rural or remote areas of large urban areas, single family or multifamily (buildings owned houses or horizontal). There are houses built on stilts to prevent the advance of water over them in floodplains, which proves to be adapted to different natural conditions. Are not the same houses, for example, to be built in areas colder than in warmer areas. Houses have
economic value of exchange, and is to their owners, landlords built, well recorded, subject to taxes, but also give their own security against the vagaries of the economy, usually in residential investment is relatively safe.
Among the fundamental human rights, is constitutionally recognized access to decent housing.
