Nagi, Beeckmans and d’Auria reconceptualise displacement as an urban condition produced at the intersection of border regimes, housing scarcity and differentiated access to the city. Their iconic contribution is the “displaced housing ecosystem”: a relational field in which migrants and non-migrants circulate through homelessness, squats, hospitality spaces, asylum accommodation, hosting arrangements and precarious rental situations. Mapping is therefore not classificatory description but a method for following trajectories, temporary stabilisations and alliances across formal and informal governance. The article’s “weird alliances” foreground improvised coalitions between displaced people, activists, property owners, civil society, municipalities and other state or non-state actors, showing housing as an infrastructural and political practice rather than a bounded commodity. Its wider theoretical importance lies in de-exceptionalising refugee urbanism: displacement becomes legible as a shared, though unevenly distributed, effect of bordering and neoliberal housing systems, while inhabitation itself becomes a form of situated governance from below.