ABSTRACT
Housing is a slippery object of study, difficult to grasp and analyze. In a certain sense, it is akin to the elephant that the blind, wise men were asked to identify in the famous fable. The men laid their hands on the gigantic creature, respectively touching a different part of the elephant’s body: perhaps the snout, an ear, a hind leg, the tail, one of the toenails, or a part of the underbelly. But after their examinations, the wise men could not identify what they had just touched. Despite their knowledge, and having been in such close contact with the elephant, they thought the animal was something else.
