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Factors that affect Housing & selecting housing types. Factors Affecting Housing Decisions. SPACE: influenced by personal wants, hobbies, activities, and how the space is used. PRIVACY: live alone, or set apart from other
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Factors Affecting Housing Decisions • SPACE: influenced by personal wants, hobbies, activities, and how the space is used. • PRIVACY: live alone, or set apart from other dwellings, private rooms or private place. • FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS: design for group living. • COSTS: rent, buy, furnishings, repair, maintenance. • ROLES: patterns of behavior that people display in their homes, the workplace, and their communities.
Think Pair Share • Stand up!! Turn to another classmate and compare your lists from warm up. • Do you have differences in your families roles? Discuss how this would change the housing you may choose. Do your roles change with age?
HOUSEHOLDS basic types: • Nuclear family: Parents, Child(ren) • Single-parent family: Mom OR Dad, child(ren) • Blended family: step-parent, mom or dad and child(ren) • Guardian: legally responsible for child(ren) • Extended Family: More than parents & children may include: grandparent(s], aunt/uncle, cousins • Childless: no children
Life Cycles • A series of stages though which an individual or family passes during its lifetime. • Individual Life Cycle • Family Life Cycle
Individual Life Cycle • Infancy stage: up to 1 year • Childhood stage: • Early childhood: 2-7 • Middle childhood: 8-12 • Late childhood: 13- adulthood (depends on country and what they consider adult age) • Youth Stage/late childhood • Adolescence: 11-12 • Teen years: 13-19 • Adulthood Stage: 20+
Family Life Cycle: Six stages of family development that provide a pattern that most families follow. • Families spend different amounts of time in the same stage. • Families can be in two stages at once.
Family Life Cycle • Beginning Stage: the early period of marriage when the couple is without children. The husband and wife make adjustments to married life and to each other. • Expanding Stage: this is the time when the family is growing. It includes childbearing periods. • Developing Stage: this occurs when the children are in school. Parents work to meet children’s changing needs.
Family Life Cycle-continued Launching Stage: when the children become adults and leave their parents’ house. They may leave to go to college, take a job, or get married. Empty Nest Stage: the time between when the children leave home and the parents retire. Retirement Stage: couple stops full-time work and adjusts to having more time.