FHCE 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Manufactured Housing, Human Ecology, Barometer

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
• Course: FHCE 3300
• Professor: Kim Skobba

Document Summary

The means by which people acquire housing. Cultural- home sizes increase in us, but not for other countries. Economic tool- use for a tool of growth. Now- 2600 is the average square ft for a home. 41% of homes completed in 2012 have 4 or more bedrooms. English were the largest group to colonize north america: people without land or a claim to land, people escaping religious persecution, puritans- artisans, farmers, commercial merchants. Wanted to break with aspects of their english heritage. Housing forms tied to daily life, religious sentiment, social order and family bonds. Conditions in new england were difficult, even for those with money and prestige. Early homes-dugouts, wigwams, huts made with small trees: adaptations of indian dwellings, made from local materials, wattle and daub, which had been used in england for centuries. Flexible wood and then mixture of mud, water, straw, and other go on top of wood. The house was primarily shelter from weather, danger.