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A home or domicile is a dwellingplace used as a permanent or semipermanent residence for an individual family household or several families in a tribe It is often a house apartment or other building or alternatively a mobile home houseboat yurt or any other portable shelter A principle of constitutional law in many countries related to the right to privacy enshrined in article 12 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights is the inviolability of the home as an individuals place of shelter and refuge Homes typically provide areas and facilities for sleeping preparing food eating and hygiene Larger groups may live in a nursing home childrens home convent or any similar institution A homestead also includes agricultural land and facilities for domesticated animals Where more secure dwellings are not available people may live in the informal and sometimes illegal shacks found in slums and shanty towns More generally home may be considered to be a geographic area such as a town village suburb city or country