ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the manner in which people use housing to exclude others and so protect their privacy. The author has returned quite literally, to a number of certainties, there are eleven of them, which state author's views on dwelling. Whether people want to do policy or theory, whether they are positivists or constructionists, realists or relativists, Marxists or conservatives, they all eventually come home. The sea glistens in the sun, the white horses rising and falling in the distance; the sky is a perfect blue and the sand underfoot accepts them, marking their journey, telling everyone where they have been. But what makes the journey worthwhile, what gives it its meaning, is taking others with them, and pointing out to them the colours, the contrasts, the wildlife, the way ahead and where they have been.
