Classification of housing ?

Housing can be classified based on 6 parameters

1. Land ownership
Group housing
Owner of the house owns the house and shares the land and amenities
Plotted housing
Owner of the house owns the house and the land
2. Structural quality
Pucca housing
Whole building is constrcuted of permenant building materials
Semi pucca housing
A part of the building is constrcuted of permenant building materials
Katcha housing
Whole building is constrcuted of temporary building materials
3. Economic groups

4. Tenure
Freehold Leasehold Rented Encroachment
→ Complete owership → Tenent owns the → Tenent rents the No ownership over land
of the land property for a runs property for a or property
→ No rent is required lumpsum amount fixed amount.
→ Complete right over → In india lease → A lease for a shorter
land and house periord is 19 yrs amount of time.
knows as perfectual → Usually 11 months
lease. or less than a year.
A property is said to be leased out when the freeholder is transferring the ownership to a second party
for a limited amount of time.
5. Built quality
Highrise Medium rise lowrise
Buildings with floors above ground + 6 Buildings with up to ground + 6 floors Buildings with up to ground + 3 floors
are high-rise are classified as mid-rise are classified as low-rise. These buildings
High rise buildings have elevators. mid rise buildings usually have are often walk-up (apartments) type
elevators. with no lifts (elevators).

6. Orgin/supply source
  Core city house
Houses that we find generally within the city walls.
Ex - jaipur ,shajahanabad, hyderabad etc.
Developed over a certain period of time and has a value in history
 Traditional house
Old houses developed over a period of time which represents the tradition, custom, lifestyle of a
particluar region or a community.
 Plotted house
Houses constructed on the plot one inherited

 Private plotted house

Buy a land from a private seller or govt. and construct the house
 Private developer house
Housing community who owns the land and construct the house and sells it to individual
customers(villas)
 Public /govt houses
Govt. construct houses under various schemes and supply it to people who are in need of housing.
(PWS housing)
 Joint venture housing
Govt offers land and the private developers construct houses and sell it to buyers.
 Cooperative housing
A set of likeminded people form a cooperative society and they construct house. Highly personalized
housing
 Employee housing
Govt and private firms provides housing facility for the employees

 Slums :Unhygienic and non-livable

 Squatters : illegal housing on encroached land
 Unaauthorized colonies :houses constrcuted without getting proper sanction from the authorities