ABSTRACT
The chapter defends an account of homelessness as a legal phenomenon, according to which to be homeless is to lack property rights of one’s own. This account can show how an otherwise disparate set of cases, including street homelessness, shelter homelessness, and hidden homelessness, are all comprehensible as cases of homelessness. It also illuminates the sense in which to be homeless is to be subordinate in respect of those activities and relations that take place within a home and thus subordinate more generally in a way that is inconsistent with familiar legal ideas of non-subordination, equality, and justice.
