Lodging

A property ( also: shelter, to live ) is a protected location ( building, a tent or a vehicle ), which at least serves to stay. Most of the units serve the living.

Structures

• Accommodations for permanent living are apartments, houses (eg bungalows, villas and castles or fortresses ), monasteries or homes.
• Accommodations for temporary living are hotels (including resorts and motels ), Hostels, Bed and Breakfast ( Bed & Breakfast ), Hostels, Villas, holiday houses, lodgings, chalets, barracks, barracks, tents (eg yurts, Wigwame and tipis ), Pavilions ( gazebos, allotment huts, vineyard cottages, chalets ), hospitals, nursing homes, retirement homes, residential containers and city halls of residence ( homeless shelters ). When traveling, some people also sleep in the waiting areas of transport buildings (eg in airport lounges and train stations ). A special feature are prisons ( prison cells) or closed institutions where convicts have to live a long time.

Rolling stock

Also, vehicles can serve as accommodation ( often transitory ): Campers, caravans, festvertäute houseboats, barges and residential buses. For the period of travel and water vehicles ( eg ferries, cruise ships and yachts ) and railways and passenger planes can serve as accommodation.

Statistical information is only collected when they were inhabited at the time of the census for accommodation. Caravans and pergolas are only recognized as inhabited accommodations when its inhabitants had no other apartment or other dwelling unit. Also building be detected with only one or two leisure units, provided that the total floor area is less than 50 m as accommodation.

Demarcation

Some people spend the night without an accommodation, such as the open air ( " star Hotel 1000 " ) or under bridges / underpasses. There are also people who are generally voluntarily or involuntarily without shelter.