Editing Public housing (section)

=== Puerto Rico ===
{{Main|Public housing in Puerto Rico}}

Neighbourhoods in Puerto Rico are often divided into three types: {{lang|es|[[barrio]]}}, {{lang|es|urbanización}} (urbanisation) and {{lang|es|residencial público}} (public housing).<ref name="primerahora.com">[http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/policia-tribunales/nota/larealidaddelasmujeresenlascarcelesdelpais-1000853/ ''La realidad de las mujeres en las cárceles del país.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410082440/http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/policia-tribunales/nota/larealidaddelasmujeresenlascarcelesdelpais-1000853/ |date=10 April 2014 }} Primera Hora. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014.</ref> An {{lang|es|urbanización}} is a type of housing where land is developed into lots, often by a private developer, and where single-family homes are built.

More recently, non-single-family units, such as [[Condominium (living space)|condominium]]s and [[townhouse]]s are being built which also fall into this category.<ref name="primerahora.com" /> (In Puerto Rico, a condominium is a housing unit located in a high-rise building. It is popularly called an {{lang|es|apartamento}} (English: 'apartment'), whether or not its resident owns the unit or lives in it as a renter.)

Public housing, on the other hand, are housing units built with government funding, primarily through programs of the [[US Department of Housing and Urban Development]] (HUD) and the [[US Department of Agriculture]] (USDA).<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-43031976.html Public Housing Projects in PR]{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Retrieved 3 November 2009.</ref> These have traditionally been multi-family dwellings in housing complexes called a {{lang|es|Barriada}} or a {{lang|es|Caserío}} (and more recently a {{lang|es|Residencial Publico}}), where all exterior grounds are shared areas.

Increasingly, however, public housing developments are being built that consist of other than the traditional multi-family dwellings with all exterior grounds consisting of shared outside area, for example, public housing may consist of single family [[garden apartment]]s units. Finally, a home that is located in neither an {{lang|es|urbanizacion}} nor of a public housing development is said to be located in (and to be a part of) a {{lang|es|barrio}}.<ref name="primerahora.com" />

In Puerto Rico, a {{lang|es|barrio}} also has a second and very different meaning official meaning: the geographical area into which a {{lang|es|[[municipio]]s}} is divided for official administrative purposes. In this sense, {{lang|es|urbanizaciones}} as well as public housing developments (as well as one or several {{lang|es|barrios}} in the popular sense) may be located in one of these 901 official geographic areas.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140413140730/http://www.elsuralavista.com/periodico/?p=32312 ''Los alcaldes de los barrios.'']}} Rafael Torrech San Inocencio. "Barrios del Sur." El Sur a la Vista. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 16 January 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2014.</ref>