This ground-breaking and compelling book takes us deep into the world of a public housing estate in Dublin, showing in fine detail the life struggles of those who live there.

The book puts the emphasis on class and gender processes, revealing them to be the crucial dynamics in the lives of public housing residents. The hope is that this understanding can help change perspectives on public housing in a way that diminishes suffering and contributes to human flourishing and well-being.

Combining long-term research into residents' lived experience with critical realist theory, it provides a completely fresh perspective on public housing in Ireland and arguably, beyond.

'This brilliant, vividly written and compelling book, drawing on rich vibrant accounts of life on a Dublin housing estate, should be compulsory reading for everyone concerned about growing social class inequalities' - Diane Reay, University of Cambridge

'A pathbreaking account of ordinary people's attempts to work out 'how to live' under late capitalism. Both erudite and passionate, the book gives a voice to some of the many casualties of Ireland's economic 'success story'.' - Colin Coulter, Maynooth University