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This chapter outlines the book’s empirical and theoretical objectives, introduces the study on which the book builds, and explicates the methodological underpinnings of that study. It shows that studying empirically how Berliners negotiate ways of staying put in allotment gardens and how boundaries around their dwelling practices are drawn fosters an understanding of the production and governance of housing precarity in a relatively rich European city. In theorizing these processes of governance, the chapter unveils the possibilities of conceptualizing informal housing in the context of bureaucracies that are commonly understood to regulate thoroughly, coherently, and according to fixed rules.