The housing crisis looms large across the contemporary United States and the city of Chicago. Our interdisciplinary and multi-method project centers the role of imagination in addressing the crisis, asking how housing is imagined and how imagination might be a crucial tool for confronting the housing crisis. We will draw on conversations, interviews, and cultural archives to organize and illuminate the housing imaginaries of housing practitioners, advocates, dreamers, and residents, past and present. The project will culminate in academic and public-facing publications as well as a public convening. By uncovering and disseminating housing imaginaries, this project promises to push beyond an impasse among social scientists, who are hindered by their focus on critique, and a trepidation among humanities scholars to engage with contemporary social issues. Overall, our project will advance scholarship and advocacy on housing but also demonstrate the intellectual and civic value of collaborative, cross-disciplinary research at the nexus of culture and society.