1. Housing unit
A dwelling house is a construction with three main structures: wall, roof, and floor, and is used for habitation.
A housing unit is a separate and independent place of abode, hence, it is built, changed or rearranged, and is used for habitation by one household or more. It can be a building, a house, a flat or an apartment.
A part of a house (a room or suite of rooms) can also be a housing unit if it satisfies the following conditions:
a) Separate: That part of the house must have facilities for sleeping, preparing and taking meals, and persons residing in it can be isolated from other households living in that house by walls or partition/bulkhead.
b) Direct access: People can enter part of the house directly from outside. That is, the occupants can enter and leave without passing through another household's accommodation.