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CHAPTER 1. The Human Need for Housing. Learning Outcomes. Assess how housing helps people meet their needs. Analyze factors that affect housing choices, including values, space, costs, roles, and lifestyle. Summarize how housing needs change over the life span.

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  1. CHAPTER 1 The Human Need for Housing

  2. Learning Outcomes • Assess how housing helps people meettheir needs. • Analyze factors that affect housing choices, including values, space, costs, roles, and lifestyle. • Summarize how housing needs change over the life span. • Examine ways housing affects quality of life.

  3. Housing Affects People • Housing, good or poor, affects the way occupants feel and behave • Housing is any dwelling that provides shelter, including • Furnishings, neighborhood, and community • A house is any building that serves as living quarters for one or more families • A home is any place a person lives

  4. People and Their Housing • Housing is the near environment, part of the total environment, and is a • small, distinct part of the total environment in which people live

  5. Meeting Needs Through Housing • Psychologist Abraham Maslow suggested that humans are motivated to satisfy five basic needs • Maslow arranged these needs in the order they must be filled, starting with those most basic

  6. Physical Needs • Physical needs are the most basic human needs • Physical needs have priority over others because they are essential for survival, including • Shelter • Food and water • Rest

  7. Physical Needs • Housing provides shelter from weather • An archeologist studies how culture provides shelter, including • materials used (such as adobe) • different forms of housing (such as a yurt) • Housing provides for water and food preparation • Housing provides places for rest and relaxation

  8. Psychological Needs • After meeting physical needs, people strive to meet psychological needs through housing, including • Security • Love and acceptance • Esteem • Self-actualization

  9. Psychological Needs • Security provides protection from the outside world, including • Physical danger and the unknown • Love and acceptance is displayed through housing in several ways, including • Providing a private place to be • Receiving tasks as part of a group

  10. Psychological Needs • Housing tells others something about youand helps you gain esteem by • Approval from others for a clean, neat home • Living in a pleasant home can help yougain self-esteem • Housing provides a place in which a personcan progress toward becoming capableand develop into his or her full potential, or self-actualization

  11. Discuss • Psychological needs can be pursued after physical needs are met How do these photos demonstrate psychological needs being met through housing?

  12. Other Needs Met Through Housing • Housing reflects your idea of beauty and pleasing environment • Beauty gives pleasure to the senses • Your personality and taste, or self-expression, is shown through housing • Ability to use imaginative skills, or creativity, to make something new is met through housing • Examples are painting and flower arranging

  13. Factors Affecting Housing Choices • Factors affecting housing choices include • Values • Space • Costs • Roles • Lifestyle

  14. Values • Values are strong beliefs and ideas about what is important, such as • family, friendship, money, status, religion, and independence • Needs and values are closely related, for example • people have the need to sleep in a bed • values influence what type of bed people choose (size, comfort level)

  15. Discuss • Values impact housing choices What values related to housing do these photos suggest?

  16. Space • Space requirements affect housing and impact peoples’ needs, including • Privacy to avoid feeling crowded and having a place for personal possessions • Family and group interactions that require designated areas for group activity • Examples include an eat-in kitchen or great room for family activities

  17. Costs • The costs of a housing structure affects what people can afford • Factors that affect type and size of housing people can afford include • Operating costs (furnishings and equipment) • Maintenance costs (repairs and utility costs)

  18. Roles • Roles are patterns of behavior that people display in their homes, for example • An adult female might be a wife, mother, and teacher • Children can be sons/daughters, students, athletes, or artists • Roles affect how housing is selected and used, for example • A student needs a quiet place to study

  19. Lifestyle • Lifestyle is a pattern or way of life and can require space for such household activities as • Hobbies (need space and storage) • Entertaining (need group spaces) • Work at home (need quiet/organized area) • Retirement (may need maintenance-free home) • Lifestyle impacts housing choices

  20. Discuss • Housing choices can enhance a way of life What lifestyles do these images suggest? What factors should be considered for such lifestyles?

  21. Housing Needs Through the Life Span • Life situations and circumstances cause change and impact the way people live, and set the stage for interactions with • Other people • People and their housing

  22. Households • A household includes all people who occupy a dwelling, including individuals and families • Five basic family structures include • Nuclear • Single-parent family • Stepfamily • Childless family • Extended family

  23. Life Cycles • A life cycle is a series of stages through which an individual or family passes during its lifetime • Two types of life cycles include • I ndividual life cycle • Family life cycle

  24. Individual Life Cycle • The individual life cycle has four substages: • Infancy • Childhood • Youth • Adulthood

  25. Family Life Cycle • The family life cycle has six major stages

  26. Discuss • What housing needs do individuals have? • What housing needs might a family need during the: • Beginning stage • Childbearing stage • Parenting stage • Launching stage • Midyears stage • Aging stage

  27. Housing and Quality of Life • Personal quality of life is enhanced when • The housing environment helps meet needs and values • Surroundings are satisfying • Cooperation of groups and individuals is necessary to improve • Housing for all groups • The quality of life for society

  28. Recap • People interact with their housing • Housing helps people satisfy physical and psychological needs • According to Maslow, these needs include • Physical and security • Love and acceptance • Esteem and self-actualization • Beauty, self-expression, and creativity are other needs people meet through housing

  29. Recap • Factors that affect housing choices include • Values, family relationships, space needs, costs, roles, and lifestyle • Needs and values are closely related • The needs and values of people and their housing vary as they move through various life cycles

  30. Recap • Meeting needs and values of individuals and families through housing can impact quality of life • Lifestyle can impact housing space needs and costs

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