A home is a construction that provides stable shelter for people.
Housing is the closed and covered place that is built to be inhabited by people. This type of building offers shelter to human beings and protects them from adverse weather conditions, in addition to providing them with privacy and space to store their belongings and carry out their daily activities.
Home, department, apartment, residence, floor, home, home y stay son algunos de los términos que se usan como sinónimo de vivienda. La utilización de cada concepto depende de ciertas características, generalmente vinculadas al tipo de construcción. De esta forma, las viviendas colectivas reciben nombres como apartamento o departamento, mientras que las viviendas individuales se conocen como casa, chalet, etc.
Temporary or precarious housing can also be called by specific terms, such as shanty . In Argentina , for example, the group of these houses is known as a villa .
decent housing
Access to decent housing is an inalienable human right, since inadequate shelter directly threatens physical and mental health . Physical accessibility, the inclusion of basic services (such as drinking water, gas and electricity), respect for cultural traditions and security must be part of the right to housing.
Beyond these postulates, the truth is that most States do not guarantee the right to housing to all their citizens. Precarious housing is very common both in large cities and in more remote towns; An increasing number of people are forced to live on the streets, giving up all comfort, hygiene and privacy.
Housing crisis
In recent years, the global crisis , together with unfortunate decisions, have led many people to economic ruin. It has become very common to find tents in public parks and mountains near cities, belonging to individuals who have lost everything and who have no other way to move forward.
The great imbalance that takes place in this world brings together a series of people who refuse to work and who abuse the system to obtain financial aid while enjoying undeserved vacations, with those who see their efforts to build a stable future crumble. , given the recession and the unemployment rate, in many countries, always rising. The right to decent housing seems like nothing more than a cliché when observing the conditions in which so many human beings subsist.
For economic and other reasons, many individuals do not have access to housing.
Characteristic of the ideal home
The ideal home is different for each person, although by convention it should have the comforts and facilities necessary for personal hygiene, rest (which is essential for leading a healthy life ) and food. In some of the big cities, the price to pay per square meter is so high that only a few can aspire to buy or rent a spacious house; most simply settle for a door to close at night.
This brings us to the distribution that human beings make of goods : while some are denied a bed, others have multi-story houses, with individual bathrooms for each member of the family group, more than one car and large gardens. with swimming pool. There is an eternal discussion about poverty and wealth, with one side arguing that everyone does what they want with their money and the other arguing that we should all have a minimum of comforts, regardless of our capital.
Given that human beings, over many generations, adapted to life in the city, to a series of needs that today we consider basic despite not having been so for our most distant ancestors, life in the streets is devastating, both physiologically and mentally.