House: is an independent construction that generally constitutes a single family dwelling.
Apartment: is a room or set of rooms inside a building forming a single private dwelling, occupying only part of the building. The "floor" is an apartment that occupies an entire floor of the building.
Rental house: is a dwelling there six or more households are housed, with communal sanitation services.
Hut or cabin [rancho]: a dwelling with adobe walls, straw, bark, or leaf roof, dirt floor (specific to rural zones).
Precarious dwelling: construction made of discarded materials (boards from crates, pieces of cardboard, zinc sheeting, etc. which were previously used for another purpose).
Dwellings in a place not intended for habitation: these are private dwellings that on the "Census Day" are functioning in sites not destined for use as dwellings (dwellings located in sites that have a permanent destination as garages, barns, warehouses, etc.)