Few people are in danger of starving, there are more poor people in Croatia than there had been when it was part of the Communist Yugoslav state. The nuclear family, a household consisting of two adults and their children, is standard in Croatia. Croatian women enjoy a more equal status with men in comparison to women in some other Yugoslav republics. Inner-city housing consists of old stone buildings in the Central European style, while small, family-unit housing and high-rise apartment buildings predominate in the city outskirts. orthodox rural housing includes one- or two-story wooden houses, small cabins, and whitewashed stone houses.