24. Deed or title: Does this housing unit have legal documents or title deeds:
X. Tenure and acquisition of the housing unit
23. Tenure
The question distinguishes whether the owner or proprietor lives in the housing unit, whether the occupants pay rent if it belongs to a relative or it is loaned.
Read the question and each option until an affirmative answer is obtained and record the corresponding code.
The person who owns the property lives there. It means that the owner is a habitual resident of the housing unit, even if they do not have documents proving their ownership. It does not matter if you have a debt or mortgage.
The rent is paid. When any of the occupants pay rent or rent for occupying the housing unit.
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It belongs to a relative or they loan them the housing unit. If the respondent states that it belongs to their spouse, child, parent, sibling, or other relative or friend who resides in another housing unit; including housing units that are loaned by a company or an institution where one of the occupants works or when the owner has asked them to take care of the housing unit.
They reside in it in another situation. It encompasses cases of housing units in litigation, intestate, occupied without the owner's permission, invaded, or any other different situation.
If they respond that the owner is deceased, ask the respondent to state whether any of the people living there are currently considered the owner or are in another situation, by reading the rest of the options.
If they state that the housing unit is owned by the owner who lives there, but the land is not, record the first option The owner lives here.
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If the answer is rent is paid, It belongs to a relative or the housing unit is loaned, or They reside in it in another situation, go to Section II. List of people and general data; otherwise, continue with question 24. deed or title.
The tenure question is presented in the census manager as follows:
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