Housing Needs
Housing Influences
Types of Housing
Renting
Home Ownership
100
Because housing provides shelter it helps fulfill these needs.
What are physical?
100
Basic services, such as electricity, cable, gas or oil.
What are utilities?
100
More privacy, more expensive, and not sharing walls with another unit are examples of this type of housing.
What is single-family housing?
100
Owners of rental housing are usually called this.
What is a landlord?
100
A long-term loan for a house.
What is a mortgage?
200
Decorating a home to reflect our personal tastes helps fulfill these needs.
What are emotional?
200
Large digital clocks, colored tape to highlight edges of counters, and good lighting would help people with these impairments.
What is visual?
200
This type of system-built home has parts made in a factory and then is assembled on-site.
What is prefabricated?
200
Written rental agreement.
What is a lease?
200
In this type of home one structure contains two separate living units.
What is a duplex?
300
Promoting family strength by giving family members a place to share their lives, work, play, entertain, etc. fulfills these needs.
What are social?
300
One family's need for space may be quite different from another family's due to the family's ______.
What is size?
300
One advantage of a multiple-family dwelling is it requires _____ land per person than single family homes.
What is less?
300
An advantage of renting is you don't have to pay for these.
What are repairs?
300
These types of housing combine advantages of home ownership AND apartment living.
What are condominiums and cooperatives?
400
When we choose a place to live, we must first consider our specific needs and well as our _________.
What are wants?
400
Wheelchair-accessible homes often have ________ doors and hallways.
What is wider?
400
This is a multiple-family dwelling in which three or more units share one building.
What is a multiplex?
400
A lease includes the _______ you must follow while living in the rental unit.
What are rules?
400
This is the part of the purchase price for a house that is paid up front.
What is a down payment?
500
In selecting housing we must find a way to balance our needs and wants with our available ____________.
What are resources?
500
If it's important to have a home near your work, school, transportation, etc., __________ maybe be your most important priority in selecting housing.
What is location?
500
Some communities restrict the locations of where these homes can be placed.
What are manufactured homes?
500
This is often equal to one month's rent or the first and last months' rent.
What is a security deposit?
500
An incentive to buy a home is that interest paid on the mortgage can be deducted from this.
What is your income tax?
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