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• What sort of houses do people live in, in Tibet?
Tibetans living in brick houses located at the top of the mountains with a water pipe system very sophisticated.
• What are houses like in Jamaica?
Jamaica houses are mostly wooden, single storey and backyard.
• Some people in Australia do build houses out of mud. Why? What do the houses look like?
The Australian mud brick houses are designed to be energy efficient and suitable ai Aboriginal lifestyle.
• The house at the start of this unit is in a place called Redcliffe. Where is Redcliffe? What is it like?
Redcliffe is a popular residential suburb near Brisbane, named by the explorer John Oxley.
• Are there places in the world where people still live in caves?
There are some cave-houses in the region of Almeria, as in Cuevas de Almanzora.

I think that people in Tibet live in houses build out of mud. They're very simple, with an owen in the middle, with few windows so as prevent the cold come into. There's no water, electric light or heat.

* What sort of houses do people live in, in Tibet? It depends on the area; in the rural area of the south Tibet, all houses have flat roofs. In the pasturing area, people usually house themselves in a yak hair tent. In the forest regions of the eastern Tibet, most villages are located halfway up the hillside. People gather the raw materials from the local countryside to build their wooden houses, with log walls and pitched roofs covered with wooden tiles.The traditional Tibetan houses, like other Tibetan culture forms, are unique and full of local characteristic features: in valley area of south Tibet, people live in a castle-like house. In the pastoral area in North Tibet people live in tents for most of the time. While in the forest area along the Yarlung Tsangbo River, people live in wooden buildings which are distinctive and different from each other. People in Ali plateau live even in cave dwellings.
* What are houses like in Jamaica? The description is easy: Jamaica houses are mostly wooden, single storey and backyard.
* Some people in Australia do build houses out of mud. Why? What do the houses look like? They love to preserve their past so houses are build out of mud and wood (the native origin of Australia).
* The house at the start of this unit is in a place called Redcliffe. Where is Redcliffe? In Queensland, Australia What is it like? is a residential suburb of the Moreton Bay Region in the north-east of the Redcliffe peninsula, approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) north-northeast of Brisbane. Since the 1880s, Redcliffe has been a popular "seaside resort" location due to its proximity to Brisbane.
* Are there places in the world where people still live in caves? In Almería, Granada, Menorca, Murcia...There are some caves where people still live, some of them as a "touristic residences", only.

1. What sort of houses do people live in, in Tibet?
On the net, I could find the following information about Tibetan architecture:

 Most of the Tibetan houses are built on elevated, sunny sites facing the south and they are commonly made of a mixture of rocks, wood, cement and earth.
 Houses have lots of windows in order to let in sunlight.
 They are white-washed on the outside and beautifull decorated inside.
 They use fuel for heating and lighting.

2. What are houses like in Jamaica? According to some web pages, The Jamaican architecture is a mixture of Spanish and baroque British styles.
Well, the Spanish style is reflected in the use of balconies, wrought iron, plaster and brick facades, arched windows and doors and high ceilings.
The British influence is reflected in wide porches and patterned railings.

3. Some people in Australia do build houses out of mud. Why? What do the houses look like?
They build their houses out of mud because they want to preserve their “traditions”. The first Australian houses were out of mud, so they want to recuperate their style.
In Australia there are Queenslander buildings which are primarily of timber and mud construction, they have one to two storeys and follow a tripartite sectional composition, since they have underfloor, primary rooms and roof. Most of them have veranda spaces and a sheltered edge of the building that is used as another living zone.

4. The house at the start of this unit is in a place called Redcliffe. Where is Redcliffe? In Queensland, Australia What is it like?
As Isidre and Núria said, Redcliffe is a residential suburb of the Moreton Bay Region in the north-east of Redcliffe peninsula, approximately 28 kilometres north-northeast of Bribane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia.
The city is a tourist area where visitors can enjoy lots of aquatic activities such as swimming, skydiving, fishing, scuba diving, windsurfing, among others.

5. Are there places in the world where people still live in caves? I totally agree with Núria, there are coves in Almería, Granada and Murcia; some people still live there, but others use them as museums to show how they live there years ago.