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Single-family (home, house, or dwelling) means that the building is usually occupied by just one household or family and consists of just one dwelling unit or suite. In some jurisdictions, allowances are made for basement suites or mother-in-law suites without changing the description from "single-family".
The term single-family home seems self-explanatory, but there’s more to it than you think.
Zoning map of Winnipeg (1947); single-family zoning highlighted in yellow. Single-family zoning is a type of planning restriction applied to certain residential zones in the United States and Canada in order to restrict development to only allow single-family detached homes.
A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia. This is a list of house types.Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings.
As reported earlier this year by the Wall Street Journal, fewer than 500 homes have been built since a 2021 law, SB 9, was passed allowing owners to split their single family home lots in two, and ...
Single-family zoning is a regulation that makes it illegal to build anything other than an individual, detached home on a plot of land — meaning dwellings like townhouses, apartments and ...
In the United States, the US Census Bureau defines a housing unit as any single-family residential structure (like a house or a manufactured home) or any distinct unit in a multi-unit building where the unit provides privacy for the occupants, and the unit has access to the outside, and occupancy is independent of any institutional affiliation. [4]
An L.A. County judge ruled Senate Bill 9 unconstitutional in a case brought by five Southern California cities. If upheld on appeal, it could restore single-family zoning in big cities across the ...