family housing

Homes for relatives

Family housing refers to residential units designed or designated for households with children, as opposed to singles or couples without dependents.

The term appears most often in military and institutional contexts: The base expanded its family housing to accommodate personnel with dependents.

It may also describe apartment complexes or developments that welcome or prioritize families over other tenant types.

Opposites
household composition/occupancy type

family housingstudio apartments

Single-room rental units

bachelor apartments · efficiency apartments · senior housing · student housing

living arrangement structure

family housingbarracks

Soldiers' residential building

dormitories · communal living · shelters · hostels · rooming houses

occupancy type

family housingstudio apartment

Single-room residence

bachelor apartment · one-room flat · bedsit · micro-unit · tiny home

Family

family, housing

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G