In many western post-industrial countries, homelessness is claiming unprecendented popular attention across the political spectrum and is a persistent theme in both mass media and academic journals preciesely because it is a way, consciously or unconsciously, of attempting to articulate or clarify the structure of social relations; we perceive home in its relative contrast to the "alienworld", the "Other". Steinbock argues that it is in terms of home and homelessness - this underlying conceptual dyad for intersubjectivity - that we predominantly understand ourselves today. While notions of home, as well as homelessness, are overburdened with meanings for us, they are nevertheless little understood and often taken for granted. Hence, our unflagging commitment to the homeless is counseled by our own lack of acceptance of the state of homelessness, which is in turn seldom informed by a clear notion of what this "home" is that we are frantically trying to place everyone in in order to "end homelessness". We rarely ask ourselves what homelessness is, much less, what it means to be home. Or as Christine, a 30 year old woman we interviewed stated: "I don't know how it feels to be homeless because I have never had a home."