Throughout history, man has considered the house as an extension of his bodily system, as a refuge from the cyclical variations and fluctuations of nature. But as a collective shelter, housing has also been an expression of individual and community will in an order that surpasses that of mere survival. But the universal reality of housing today is far from ideal. Very few building types endure such a high level of misconceptions as housing does, in spite of its social relevance and, finally, no sector of the output of the Building Industry arouses a controversy higher than that coming from the housing. Housing targets, programs, and policies are always provisional and always superseded before long; and housing has been used wrongly, for too long, as a regulator of the nation’s economy. At present, the production of new housing falls far short of meeting current needs. Past attempts to solve the problem of housing have, in most cases, been palliative answers to particular conditions, or short-term solutions that have created long-term problems.