Schnelzer reconceptualises urban residential displacement as a dissimilar, processual and affective condition rather than a single event of removal. The iconic idea is the triad of becoming displaceable, feeling displacing and un/doing displacement: three entry points that name political-economic vulnerability, embodied-cognitive experience and socio-spatial practice within the global housing affordability crisis. The article’s theoretical contribution lies in expanding displacement studies beyond eviction, demolition and spectacular violence toward subtle, everyday and anticipatory forms of housing pressure. Methodologically, Schnelzer develops a praxeological and Deleuze-inspired conceptual framework grounded in the problem of rent appreciation and welfare-state mediation, especially in Vienna. Its conceptual operation is temporal differentiation: displacement becomes readable before, during and beyond physical relocation, as an unstable relation between subjectivity, housing economy and room for manoeuvre. Its bridge to the wider field connects urban geography, housing studies, affect theory, political economy and critical precarity research.