ABSTRACT
Housing just stands and so it is a hostage to our intentions. Housing is an objectless object. Aspiration breaks housing by trying to force it to move. The activity of aspiration is policy. Aspiration carves housing into a new and unnatural shape, turning its welcome into an unfriendly competitive glare. Cost and value are the products of aspiration. Aspiration creates wariness towards housing and in housing. Motive becomes the enemy of complacency by questioning the meaningful use of housing as complacent care. It brings the object-hood of housing to the fore and makes it consequential. Housing, as such, becomes an unavoidable burden. Policy ignores the continuity of housing. Housing has a constancy that supplants the immediacy of policy. Policy attempts to remake housing as 'homes': as an aggregate based on standards. The reduction of housing to aggregates and standards makes it a transparent void. Aggregation trivializes housing through standardization, while dis-aggregation demonstrates significance of housing through its very unique ordinariness.
