This article focusing on housing and in particular, home, as a locus of social harm during the COVID-19 pandemic. Suggesting new ways of thinking and talking about the three-way relationship between housing, health and social inequality and demonstrates some possibilities which the social harm lens might offer for housing policy analysis.

This article represents the next stage in the development of ideas from Craig’s CaCHE working paper published in April 2020, ‘Out of harm’s way?‘.