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  2. Multifamily residential - Wikipedia

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    Mother-in-law apartment: small apartment either at the back, in the basement, or on an upper level subdivision of the main house, usually with a separate entrance (also known as a "Granny flat" in the UK, Australia New Zealand and South Africa). If it is a separate structure from the main house, it is called a 'granny cottage' or a 'doddy house'.

  3. Secondary suite - Wikipedia

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    American Craftsman house with detached secondary suite. A secondary suite (also known as a accessory dwelling unit (ADU), in-law apartment, granny flat, granny annex or garden suite [1]) is a self-contained apartments, cottages, or small residential units, that is located on a property that has a separate main, single-family home, duplex, or other residential unit.

  4. Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875

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    The Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 36) or the Cross Act was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom designed by Richard Cross, Home Secretary during Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's second Conservative Government, which involved allowing local councils to buy up areas of slum dwellings in order to clear and then rebuild them.

  5. Ancillary services - Wikipedia

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    Ancillary services are the services necessary to support the transmission of electric power from generators to consumers given the obligations of control areas and transmission utilities within those control areas to maintain reliable operations of the interconnected transmission system. "Ancillary services are all services required by the ...

  6. Secondary suites in Canada - Wikipedia

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    A secondary suite is a self contained dwelling, sometimes attached to the main dwelling, sometimes separate, which can be offered for rent to a third party by the owner/occupier. Some Canadian municipalities permit these while others do not, and rules vary as to what sort of dwellings are permitted to have secondary suites and what forms they ...

  7. List of building types - Wikipedia

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    Lifestyle center: "Main Street" concept with pedestrian circulation in core and vehicular circulation along perimeter; upscale national chain specialty stores, dining or entertainment (e.g. The Grove, Los Angeles, CA; Americana at Brand, Glendale, CA) Freestanding: any stand-alone retail structure that is not part of a complex

  8. Primary residence - Wikipedia

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    The requirements to validate your principal residence vary and depend on the agency requesting verification. On the federal level, the taxpayer's principal residence may in general include a houseboat, a house trailer, or the house or apartment that the taxpayer is entitled to occupy as a tenant-stockholder in a cooperative housing corporation, in addition to the traditional house ...

  9. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    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.