Housing and home: two concepts that are often used interchangeably. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) states that housing is a fundamental _human right_ (Article 25) and that “no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his... home.... Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks” (Article 12). Indeed, the physical, proverbial “roof over the head” is also metaphorical. A shelter is deemed to provide more than a place for lodging and dwelling; it provides security, safety, dignity, supports identity, and is a place for belonging, a home, a _casa_, and an _hogar_. The range of significations for a casa-hogar/housing-home is vast— personal, collective, social, material. In the United States, housing/homes and the policies that model them have been a powerful historical tool for distributing racially defined social hierarchies that benefit and privilege dominant groups. Access to land ownership, discriminatory Federal Housing Authority (FHA) mortgages, redlining, blockbusting, suburbanization, the resulting residential segregation and the consequences for socioeconomic opportunity, including access to education and wealth-building, have revolved around the question of housing. Painted in black and white, Latinas/ os have remained largely invisible in the accounting of this narrative. Yet Latinas/os have...