1. Housing Options
Housing I: Objective 2.01

2. Today there are many housing choices
Multifamily
Apartments
Cooperative
Condominium
Townhouse
Single-Family

3. Types of Apartments
Penthouse
Garden
Efficiency

4. Penthouse
Usually the most expensive. Located on the top floors of a building. Great views. Often have access to roof top gardens and pools. Think of the sayings like: Working my way to the top, It’s lonely at the top, and Climbing my way up.

5. Penthouse

6. Penthouse

7. Penthouse

8. Penthouse

9. Garden Apartments
Ground floor. Can cost less. Benefit of often being able to walk straight out into a garden or lawn.

10. Garden Apartments

11. Garden Apartments

12. Garden Apartments

13. Garden Apartments

14. Efficiency
The smallest of the apartments. Usually everything is in one room with an extremely small bath and kitchen. If rooms are divided it is usually only by a screen, curtain, or a step. Often in large cities where square footage is at a premium price.

15. Efficiency

16. Efficiency

17. Cooperative
Cooperative is similar to an apartment but the owner buys “stock” in the building and has a specific unit to live in. The dwellers of a cooperative are owners of a building and work together to maintain the building.

18. Condominium
A condominium is a form of home ownership in which individual units of a larger complex are sold, not rented. These units may be renovated

19. Townhouse
A townhouse is a dwelling that seems to combine the best amenities of a single-family home and a condominium. A townhouse is a home that is attached to adjacent houses. Typically, ownership of the townhouse comes with ownership of the land that its on.

20. Townhouse

21. Townhouse

22. Single-Family Houses
Single-family homes allow the owners to have more privacy. They can have a yard and do not have people living above or below them. Can you think of any other benefits of living in a single-family home.

23. Single-Family Houses

24. Single-Family Houses

25. Single-Family Houses

26. Custom Built Home
A home that is designed by an architect and built by a contractor to meet the needs of an individual family. With a custom built home, the home is unique and there are seldom two that are alike. These homes are more costly than other homes and often take longer to build.

27. Owner-Built Home
The building is supervised by the owner. Owner built homes require knowledge and lots of personal time and energy. The owner can but does not necessarily do their own work, but hires the individual team of workers

28. Factory-Built or Site-Built
Modular
Manufactured/mobile
Site built is a home that is built on the land where it will stand

29. Modular Homes
Homes that are built in sections and the put together in segments or cubes like a puzzle.
Benefits include:
The structure does not get rained on during construction.
The company builds the same plan more often so waste is less
Less expensive
Have different building codes than houses
They are moved onto a foundation on your own land

30. Factory-Built

31. Factory-Built

32. Factory-Built

33. Stick-Built

34. Stick-Built

35. Manufactured/Mobile Homes
Homes that are completely built in a factory and moved on wheels to a piece of land that is rented (mobile home park) or owned.
They can be moved to another location
Can be single wide or double wide

36. Manufactured/Mobile Homes

37. Manufactured/Mobile Homes

38. Manufactured/Mobile Homes

39. Manufactured/Mobile Homes

40. Remember
A site-built home is a “stick-built” home, constructed on the lot (land) using some factory-built components such as precut items and kits.
Custom-built home is designed by an architect and built by a contractor to meet the needs of an individual family.