# Domesticity

> Domesticity connects occupancy to safety, identity, memory, and belonging

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:home-shelter:domesticity` |
| Family | Home & Shelter |
| Domain | Culture |
| Era | Kinship Age → Collective Age |
| Kind | concept |
| Archetype | The Field |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Domesticity is a concept in the Home & Shelter family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Domesticity connects occupancy to safety, identity, memory, and belonging.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** owner, occupant, buyer, seller, lender, investor, steward, regulator
- **Incentives:** access, certainty, control, value, continuity
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** rights, constraints, uses, relationships, consequences
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Domesticity connects occupancy to safety, identity, memory, and belonging
- **Gift:** Clarity about domesticity makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When domesticity is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when domesticity is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where domesticity appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Domesticity reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Domesticity changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Domesticity changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Domesticity can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Field enters the reading through Domesticity. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What changes when Domesticity becomes the unit of analysis?

**Guidance:** Shift scale, clock, stakeholder, boundary, and claim layer before choosing a move.

## Game function

Creates a graph move that changes the active map. Initiative 3.

## Relationships

- **Shoreline is governed by Domesticity.** Shoreline is governed by Domesticity through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Belonging is evidenced by Domesticity.** Belonging is evidenced by Domesticity through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Domesticity is administered through Inheritance.** Domesticity is administered through Inheritance through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Domesticity externalizes to Mixed-Use Residence.** Domesticity externalizes to Mixed-Use Residence through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Home versus Collateral
- Shelter versus Investment

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Domesticity through the lineage of Home & Shelter: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Domesticity: one dominant symbolic mechanism with a restrained secondary counterforce; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [Housing Discrimination Under the Fair Housing Act](https://www.hud.gov/helping-americans/fair-housing-act-overview) — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; housing discrimination and protected classes.
- [Housing Data](https://www.census.gov/topics/housing.html) — U.S. Census Bureau; housing stock, tenure, construction, vacancies.
