Talk:Single-family home

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[edit] Single-family = detached?

Rowhouses, such as the houses that make up most of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston, are single-family attached homes. This article seems to be talking about detached houses. "Single-family" simply refers to the fact that the home is not a multiunit building, such as an apartment building or condo. It is entirely possible to have single family attached homes, multifamily detached homes, single family detached, multifamily attached, etc etc.

I can see how out West in California or Oklahoma one might use the term "single family" to mean "detached" (because there are no rowhouses) but I'm not sure it's used that way in the Northeast. Passdoubt | Talk 20:19, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture gallery

As I think that the previous gallery (displaying US single family homes) is the best match to the described building type above, I added it back in. The mix of "real" single family homes and "huts-around-the-world" did not look right and did not help to display the matter of a single-family home. I am probably right if I say the river house is a bit exotic for when you look up "Single-family home" in an encyclopedia. So maybe we should open a new article "single-family homes in other nations" or something like that. Let me know what you think. -- Boereck 11:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Class and size references

I would like to point out that the inclsuion of class references (e.g. "upper middle class home" or even "mid-size" home) is highly arbitrary. An upper middle class home (valued at roughly between $400k and half a million USD) in California might only have 1,000 square feet (as seen here), whereas such a home in suburban Chicago might be big enough to fit that 1000 square footer in the garage (as seen here). Thus, considering that an upper middle class home in Chicago might very well be thrice the size of one in San Francisco, we need to abstain from any class references, unless such are obvious (in the case of shacks and mansions). Size statements, though somewhat less subjective are still quite OR as there are no real guidelines. As long as we abstain from class references however we should be on relatively safe, that is objective, ground. Best Regards, Signature^brendelNow under review! 05:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

• Consider too, that in some of the newer (developed after the automobile) inner cities in the U.S., there are many depressed areas that are primarily made up of single-family detached housing stock. One good example is Detroit, which has very few multi-family dwellings, even in the most poverty-stricken areas, and has one of the largest percentages of owner-occupied housing among the U.S.'s largest cities at 54.9% (2000 census). An example of a typical Detroit inner-city home is the right side brick building of the Hitsville U.S.A. museum, which was constructed as a single-family home in the 1930s. (I'm not sure whether or not the building on the left was converted to duplex use after it was built or if that's the original configuration.) 70.123.216.219 16:02, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Very ture, while a shack in an undesirable California neighborhood California can go for $400,000, single-family homes in Detriot or Augusta can go for as little as an upscale car. In some cities such as Salinas, CA near-six figure incomes are the basis for homeownership while in others like Detriot even those at or near the poverty threshold can afford homes. BTW: Both houses belong to the Hitsville museum-that's why you see that connection between them-but they're both good examples of inner-city single family homes.Signature^brendelNow under review! 22:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)