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Household production
Household production is the unpaid production of goods and services within households for their own consumption, such as cooking, cleaning, and caregiving; it lies outside GDP and is measured through satellite accounts.
Household registration system
The Tang dynasty household registration system (户籍) compiled periodic registers of households as the basis for assigning taxes and corvée labor, known from excavated Dunhuang registers.
Household Responsibility System
The Household Responsibility System (家庭联产承包责任制) is the Chinese rural reform under which households farm contracted collective land and keep output above their quota, starting in 1978.
Household Tax Edict of Western Jin
The Household Tax Edict of Western Jin (户调式) was a fiscal decree issued by Emperor Wu of Jin around 280, fixing land grants and household taxes.
Household tax reform of 1679
The household tax reform of 1679 (Подворное обложение 1679 года), under Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich, replaced Russia's sokha assessment with the household as the unit of direct taxation.
Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia
The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, known to respondents as the Living in Australia Study, has tracked Australian households annually since 2001.
Householder transformation
The Householder transformation, also called a Householder reflection, is a symmetric orthogonal matrix reflecting vectors across a hyperplane, widely used in QR factorization since Alston Householder introduced it in 1958.
Housekeeping
Housekeeping is the statistical concept defining a household by shared domestic management (eating, production, consumption) rather than shared dwelling space; it underpins census definitions of households and families and the comparative measurement of family structure.
Housemarque
Housemarque (Housemarque Oy), Helsinki studio founded 1995 from Bloodhouse and Terramarque, maker of Super Stardust HD, Resogun, Nex Machina, Returnal, and Saros; Sony-owned since 2021, known for arcade-spirit shooters.
Houseparty (app)
Houseparty, also known as Houseparty.com, was a group video chat app launched in 2016 by Life on Air, acquired by Epic Games in 2019 and shut down in 2021.
Houseplant
Houseplant: an indoor container plant, mostly tropical species grown for decoration and wellbeing. Key species include snake plant, pothos, peace lily, and ZZ plant; NASA air-cleaning claims do not scale to real rooms.
Houses are for living, not for speculation (房子是用来住的，不是用来炒的)
房住不炒 (Houses are for living, not for speculation) is China's housing policy positioning first stated at the December 2016 Central Economic Work Conference, written into the 19th Party Congress report, enforced through purchase, credit, price, and resale restrictions, and partially unwound from 2022 amid the property downturn.
Houses of the Holy
Houses of the Holy is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in 1973 through Atlantic Records and produced by Jimmy Page.
Houses of the Molé
Houses of the Molé is Ministry's tenth studio album (June 21, 2004, Sanctuary), an anti-George W. Bush industrial thrash record, the first without Paul Barker, opener "No W" sampling Carmina Burana.
Housesitter
Housesitter is a 1992 American romantic comedy directed by Frank Oz, starring Steve Martin as an architect and Goldie Hawn as a liar who poses as his wife.
Housesteads Mithraeum
Housesteads Mithraeum: Roman temple of Mithras found in 1822 outside Housesteads fort on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland. Known for its unique relief of Mithras born from an egg, altars to Mithras Saecularis, and dedicator Litorius Pacatianus.
Housewarming party
A housewarming party celebrates a person or family moving into a new home; the word dates to the 1570s. In the US, hosts pay and avoid asking for gifts; many cultures add rituals like Griha Pravesh, bread and salt, or French pendre la crémaillère.
Housewife
Housewife: a married woman whose main occupation is unpaid household management and care; synonymous with homemaker. Defined by the 19th-century withdrawal-from-labor-market norm, the 708 million women excluded from labor forces by unpaid care work, and declining stay-at-home-parent shares.
Houshang Ebtehaj
Houshang Ebtehaj, who wrote under the pen name H. E. Sayeh, was an Iranian poet and Hafez scholar regarded as one of the twentieth century's leading poets.
Houshang Golshiri
Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری) was an Iranian novelist, short-story writer, and critic, a pioneer of modernist Persian fiction best known for his 1968 novel Prince Ehtejab about a dying Qajar prince.
Houshang Irani
Houshang Irani (هوشنگ ایرانی, 1925–1973) was an Iranian poet, translator, critic, and painter who pioneered surrealist and Dadaist experiment in modern Persian poetry and led the Khorus jangi circle.
Houshang Moradi Kermani
Houshang Moradi Kermani (هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی), born 1944 in Sirch near Kerman, is an Iranian writer of children's and young adult literature best known for the Tales of Majid.
Housheng Hansen He
Housheng Hansen He is a Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto professor known for prostate cancer epigenetics, transcriptional regulation, and circular RNA research.
Houshi power station
Houshi power station, also known as Zhangzhou Houshi power plant (漳州后石电厂), is a 4,200 MW coal-fired power station in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, with seven 600 MW supercritical units built from 1996 with Taiwan funding.
Houshou Marine (宝鐘マリン)
Houshou Marine (宝鐘マリン) is a Japanese VTuber of Hololive's 3rd generation, debuted August 11, 2019 as captain of the Houshou Pirates; Japan's most-subscribed VTuber, with a 2024 album peaking 3rd on Oricon.
Housing and Development Board
Housing and Development Board (HDB), Singapore's public housing authority since 1 February 1960; built 53,000 flats in five years under Lim Kim San; about 80% of residents live in its flats across 23 towns.
Housing construction in the Soviet Union
Housing construction in the Soviet Union, also called housing construction in the USSR, was a state-directed program of mass apartment building that moved over a third of the population into new homes between 1956 and 1965.
Housing cooperative
A housing cooperative, or co-op, is corporate ownership of housing where residents hold shares plus occupancy rights rather than unit title. Covers governance, limited equity and market rate models, US history, and condo differences.
Housing crisis in the United States
The housing crisis in the United States is a sustained shortage and affordability failure in which prices, rents, and homelessness have risen far faster than incomes.
Housing Development Finance Corporation
Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC Ltd) was an Indian housing finance company founded in 1977 by H.T. Parekh as India's first mortgage lender, merged into HDFC Bank in 2023.