ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns housing and nothing else. To think on housing is to see housing as the only thing, the sole focus of our studies. It aims to develop concepts and ideas that come out of housing rather than attempt to bolt housing onto any already existing conceptual apparatus. Thinking need not be strictly theoretical, therefore, but rather requires the application of rigorous analysis to housing. Housing is an object that has an activity as its intrinsic quality. Housing holds: it bears use and meaning. Like housing, a term which encompasses the unaffordable commodity and the loose doorknob, thinking moves from the consequential to the banal and back again, and with little awareness of the consequences of what really matters. There is a current lack of clarity, with the seriousness of housing hidden under a cloak of policy discourse and the traces of disciplines that bring already formed abstractions to bear on housing.
