HOUSING NEEDS

Dr. Amrapali Trivedi

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FAMILY HOUSING NEEDS

• Housing – as the word is used in this text, means any dwelling that provides shelter.
• Housing is your Near Environment, a small and distinct part of the total environment in which you live .
• Your total environment includes all your interactions with people and buildings as well as different geographical areas outside your dwelling place, neighbourhood, and local community.
• Housing affects your actions, and in turn, your actions affect your housing.

• Meeting Needs Through Housing Needs are the basic requirements that people must have filled in order to live. All people have physical, psychological, and other needs. They share the need for shelter in which to eat, sleep, and carry on daily living activities. Here , we will discuss some important Housing Needs :-
• Protective needs
• Economic Needs
• Affectional Needs
• Educational Needs
• Social Needs
• Cultural Needs
• Religious Needs
• Prestige needs
• Recreational Need

PROTECTIVE NEEDS

• SHELTER: - Protection from nature- temperature, rain, snow, wind, sunlight
• The need for shelter and protection from the weather has always been met by a dwelling of some type.
• Archaeologists are social scientists who study ancient cultures by unearthing dwelling places of past civilizations.
• Archaeological findings reveal how ancient structures were made and used, and how they met the need for shelter - a basic universal need.�

• It is another important sectional function of family. Necessary arrangement of stable satisfaction of sexual urge resulted in procreation. Family provides the legitimate basis for production of children. It institutionalizes the process of procreation. By performing this function of procreation family contributes to the continuity of family and ultimately human race. Hence perpetuation of human race or society is the most important function of family. Not only the production of children but also child rearing is another important function of family. Family is the only place where the function of child rearing is better performed and for family we must have a HOME.

• It provides food, shelter, affection, protection and security to all its members. It plays a vital role in the process of socialization of child. It provides healthy atmosphere in which the personality of the child develops properly. Family takes care of the child at the time of need. Hence it is rightly remarked that family is an institution par excellence for the procreation and rearing of children. It has no parallels.

ECONOMIC NEEDS

• Since ancient times home has been performing several economic functions. It is an important economic unit. In ancient time family was both a production and consumption unit. It used to fulfil almost all the economic needs of it’s members such as food, clothing, housing etc. In the then days family was self- sufficient. But now a days almost all the economic functions of family is performed by other agencies and family only remain as a consumption unit. It do not produce anything. All the members of family now working outside the home.
• But in spite of all family still performing some economic functions of purchasing, protecting and maintaining property. It also equally distribute property/Home among it’s members. So its also fulfil economical needs.

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AFFECTIONAL NEEDS

• Housing is the primary setting for the family. It provides opportunities for interaction with family members and friends.
• Housing affects your feelings of being loved and accepted. If you have your own bedroom or private place, you know that others care about you. They have accepted you as a person who has needs. When you are assigned household chores, it is because you have been accepted as part of a group.

EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

• Home performs many educational functions for it’s members. As an primary educational institution family used to teach letters, knowledge, skill and trade secret to all it’s members. It looks after the primary education of it’s members and moulds their career and character.
• At present many of the educational functions are taken over by school, college and universities.
• All Are activities are performed in Home and specially when we buy/build any home , we will see the home will be fulfil the educational needs also.

SOCIAL NEEDS

• Home performs a number of social functions. It teaches about social customs, mores, traditions, norms, etiquette to the coming generations. Family exercises social control over its members and bring them into conformity with accepted standards. Senior members of family directly control the behaviour of children and thereby they became a good citizen.

CULTURAL NEEDS

• Home also performs several cultural functions as well. It preserves different cultural traits. Man learns and acquires culture from family and transmits it to succeeding generations. That is why family is considered as centre of culture.
• A need of house for all cultural activities.

RELIGIOUS NEEDS

• Family is the centre of all religious activities. All the family members offer their prayers together and observe different religious rites, rituals and practices jointly. All the members believe in a particular religion and observe religious ceremonies at home. Children learn different religious values from their parents. Living in a spiritual atmosphere spirituality develops among the children. Family transmits religious beliefs and practices from one generation to another. But at present family became more secular in their outlook. Common family worship became very rare and absolute. Still family continues to play an important role in shaping religious attitude of its members.
• Without a home, we will not perform our religious activities in right manner.

RECREATIONAL NEEDS

• Family-performs several recreational functions for it’s members by entertaining them in various ways. In ancient period family was the only centre of recreation. All the members together organize family feasts, visit the family relations, organize family picnics etc.
• Family organize different festivals which is another source of recreation. The relationship between grandparents and grand children is another source of entertainment. After day’s work all the members used” to assemble and exchange their view. Of course modern club replaces many recreational functions of family. But at the same time it is said that present family acts as a modern club without its evil effects.
• Without a perfect home all activities can not done.