Housing is not just a right. Housing is right. Rights are never singular, or solitary; especially when the right is treated as property. Property is always a bundle of rights. Property gives its owner access to certain rights. Housing, then, is the bundle you hold. The house is a vessel, a transfer of entitlements, securities, obligations, and futures. Housing is both a question of ownership and occupancy. The right to the latter is guaranteed by the institutions of the former. Occupancy is to exercise the right of one’s housing. Ownership, however, is not used; it can only be given, or taken.

Housing is a collaboration between e-flux architecture and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Chair for Theory of Architecture.