Affordability
Affordability is the measure of a person's (or family's) ability and willingness to pay.

Apartment House
A building generally of several stories containing a number of separate dwellings with a common
entrance from the street and often with services like heating and lighting in common

Census house
A census house is a building or a part of a building having a separate main entrance from the road or common courtyard or staircase etc., used or recognized as a separate unit. It may be occupied or vacant it may be used for residential or non-residential purposes or both.

Cluster development
One in which a number of dwelling units are grouped leaving some land undivided for common use. It may mean grouped leaving the same numbers of units allowed in a given subdivision or zoned area on smaller than usual or minimum lot, with the remainder of land available as a common area.

Colony
It means an area of land within a controlled area, which is developed or proposed to be developed for purpose of sub-dividing into plots for residential or other purposes

Core House
Core house is one of the many forms of low-cost housing, covering delivery of anything short of the finished product and incorporating site-and-services scheme. The essence of this house is to provide a framework, which enables a target group of low-income households to obtain substantial at costs within their means.

Dwelling units
In relation to a building or portion of a building, means a unit of accommodation, in such building or portion used sole for the purpose of residence.

Dwelling Type
The physical arrangement of dwelling units includes: 1. Detached - Individual dwelling unit, separated from the other. 2. Semi-detached - Two dwelling units sharing a common wall. 3. Row / Group - Dwelling units grouped together linearly or in cluster. 4. Walk-up - Dwelling units grouped in two to five stories with stairs for vertical circulation. 5. High Rise - Dwelling units in five or more stories with stairs and lifts for vertical circulation.

Dwelling Unit Area
The dwelling unit area is the built-up covered area of a dwelling unit.

Dwelling Unit
A general, global designation of a building / shelter in which people live. A dwelling may contain one more dwelling units.

Dwelling Unit Area
The dwelling unit area (sq. m) is the built-up, covered area of a dwelling unit.

Group Housing
A premise of size not less than 4000 sqm comprising of residential flats with basic amenities like parking, park, convenience shops, public utilities etc.

Habitable Room
A room occupied or designed for occupancy by one or more persons for study, living, sleeping, kitchen if it is used for living room, but not including bathrooms, water-closet, compartments, laundries, serving and storage pantries, corridors, cellars and spaces that are not used frequently or during extended periods. Most regulations required a habitable room to be at least 100 sq ft.

House
In the context of planning, 'house' means a building for human habitation. It can take many forms, a mud-hut with a single room to a place with 500 rooms. For modern planning, the majority of houses are either one, two or three storey single-family dwellings and either detached, semi-detached or terraced i.e., structurally joined in rows of three or more. Except in housing statistics, the term is not usually applied to single-floor dwellings in multi-storey building; these are called 'apartments' in USA and most European countries and 'flats' in Great Britain.

Household
A household is a group of persons who commonly live together and would take their meals from the common kitchen unless the exigencies of work prevent any of them from doing so. There may be households of persons related by blood or a household of unrelated persons or mix of both.

Housing Demand
It is measured as the number of dwellings of standard quality that a given expenditure could purchase.

Housing Finance
Covers financing at al stages in the development and sale of housing from land purchase to construction, installation of on-site infrastructure, and mortgage credit. Some stages, such as construction, require short-term loans; other, such as mortgage financing are long-term.

Houseless Population
The enumeration of the houseless population was carried out in possible places where houseless population are likely to live such as on roadside pavements, in hume pipe, under staircase or in the open, temples mandaps, platforms.

Housing Need
Number of dwelling units required for households without shelter and households occupying unacceptable living quarters, or The total need for housing irrespective of the capability of the individuals/ households to be able to afford it.

Housing Shortage
A housing shortage is the amount by which the demand for housing at a given price exceeds the supply of housing.

Housing Situation
Incomes, city size, rate of urban growth and policy together define the housing situation in any city.

Housing Supply
The total supply of housing that is made available, or existing, by various sources like Government/ non-Governmental agencies, to meet the demand and need of the housing.

Housing Stock
It is a capital god with a long life complicates the analysis of housing demand.

Kuchcha
Unbaked, clay built, below a fixed standard, half done. Provisional, flimsy, substandard.

Modular housing
Factory produced units used alone or in combination with other units after it is erected at a building site.

Occupancy rate
It is defined as the number of persons per habitable room (Government of India).

Pucca
Permanent when used to describe a structure. Made of brick and mortar or stone as compared to a 'kuccha' structure made of bamboo or mud. It is substantial, permanent, solidly built, baked, strong, solid, firm, lasting and permanent.

Residential flat
Residential accommodation for one family (one household) which may occur as part of group housing or independently.

Residence
Includes the use for human habitation of any land or buildings or part thereof including gardens, grounds, garrage, stables and out-houses if any, appertaining to such building.

Semi-detached building
A building detached on three sides with open spaces.

Slum
An area in which the narrowness, closeness, and bad arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light or sanitation facilities, or any combination of this factors are detrimental to safety, health or morals.

Suburb
Suburb are the compactly developed or developing areas surrounding the central city in a metropolitan area. There is normally no identifiable boundary between city and suburb, the city merges gradually into the suburb without an appreciable break in physical aspects.

Sullage
Drainage or refuge especially from a house, farm, yard or street

Type of structure Pucca
A pucca structure is one whose walls and roofs are at least made of pucca materials such as cement , concrete, oven burnt bricks, stone and stone blocks, junk board, titles, timber, galvanized or corrugated iron sheets, asbestos, cement sheets etc.

Kutcha
A kutch structure is one which has both walls and roofs made of kutcha or non-pucca materials such as unburnt bricks, bamboo, mud grass, leaves, reeds and or thatch etc.

Semi-Pucca
A semi-pucca structure is one which could not treated as wholly pucca or wholly kutcha.