Housing is a women’s matter. Theirs responsibilities go beyond home making and child rearing, from finding an apartment, to managing to maintain housing costs and other household expenses, to preventing displacement. Especially in the context of social housing, apartments are often in a woman’s name, irrespective of whether or not a man is present. Housing is the intersection of community, locality, and domesticity, and it best exemplifies women’s interests in linking place and politics. Indeed, women’s informalisation of labor, assistance and organizing is a very common practice in these communities, and one in which women have an active part. Gender and other sources of marginalization and inequality shape how women experience social housing communities under the threat of privatization and residualization. Yet they are not fully taken into consideration by policymakers. CITY-OF-CARE suggests alternatives to housing policies that merely seeks to provide a roof over people’s heads, to give explicit attention to gender equality.