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The housing struggle is a struggle over meaning. Housing means different things to different people. As a home, it is for many a site of social reproduction. For many others, as basic shelter, it is the first foothold in a city. A space of privacy and security, but is often a site for oppression and exploitation. It is often organized to segregate and isolate, but sometimes it also serves to empower and resist. For dwellers, it unlocks a whole range of social, cultural and political worlds. But most of all, it offers the possibility of freedom, identity and individuality. There is a similar struggle going on in the peri urban areas of lahore. A story of villages trapped in a big city. And struggling for housing. Corporate housing societies has been the main driver of urbanisation locally and globally. Often supported by government as a development project. But many are getting no help. An emergent form of urbanisation has risen in these villages which I call subaltern housing. Housing which is coming into being on struggle of the dwellers of that areas without any assistance coming from above. Housing in peri urban areas of lahore is being driven by the aspirations of the local to become a shareholder of the urban life. For which they struggle with a lot of precarity prevailing by the agrarian logic of the rural life. People develop small housing societies collaboratively. There’s no big corporate real estate to develop. They are left on their own. And trapped Collaboration plays out in contestation with conflict over claim of land created by the weak property rights. Causing more violence. They often take loans for their small projects to develop land into housing from banks by leasing out their land Which increases the almost prevailing precarity. Neoliberal urbanisation has hammered as the capital accumulation intensifies in the center. The city expands and raises the property rates and increases employment. What they call rostow stages of development. What I am telling you that these processes don’t conform the neoliberal logic. The real estate markets are not working on the neoliberal logic. These villages have no access to the market all to gather. And the access is not going to be there, unless state authorities look into it and deal with the constraints causing this exclusion. These processes asks to formulate the question of urban dwelling from the perspective of public policy, and develop the ability to analyze public policy through an understanding of the theory and practice of urban settlement and occupationhistorically and in the contemporary period, the various contestations over its meaning and value, its mode of production, its use and control, its form and shape, and access and inclusion