We spend years getting a home right and still find it joyless. A reflection on why joy lives in how a house is used, not how it looks, and a few ways to design for it.

Prime Minister Holness’s message at the Malvern housing handover, build within your means on land that won’t flood, captures how generational wealth is actually built in Jamaica, and why land title matters more than ever after Hurricane Melissa.

Our houses have never been more connected, or more quietly divided. A reflection on phones, Wi-Fi and smart gadgets, and how a household can use them without being used by them.

Every street has someone with a past that everybody remembers. What would it look like to give them the same space to change that Jesus gave the woman in John 8?

The good plates in the cabinet, the front room no one sits in, the settee still in its plastic after fifteen years. On saving the best of the house for a someday that may not come.

Alcohol problems rarely stay with one person; the whole household learns to live around them. A reflection on fear, truth and the first steps towards freedom, with a note on where to find help.

Homes can hold secrets as easily as they hold furniture: hidden debts, hidden habits, hidden grief. Why honesty is the first step to freedom for a household, and where to find help.

A retired husband describes selling the family home after the children left, the guilt and grief of letting it go, and the unexpected peace of a smaller place.

Bad news about a parent’s health rarely stays at the hospital. It comes home, and soon the family is arguing about who will care, who will pay and what happens to the house. A reflection on keeping peace in that room.

Family property disputes often turn on what was said, not what was signed. A reflection on guarding our words when relatives sit down to talk about land and houses.