This chapter opens at daybreak on the plazas and bus loops of Chongqing’s public rental housing (PRH) estates to frame the book’s core puzzle: how a strongly state-led housing program becomes everyday life for migrant families. Reading the scene through Lefebvre’s “production of space,” it shows how conceived policy space—land tickets (dipiao), a more permeable hukou door, and mass PRH—meets spatial practice in commutes, school runs, small commerce, and nightly markets, and gradually sediments into lived attachments to courtyards, decks, and routes. Rather than adjudicate a simple success/failure ledger, the chapter maps the trade—stable rent and equitable schooling for longer rides and early thin services—and argues that inclusive urbanisation is assembled in ordinary time. It positions Chongqing as an inland counterpoint to coastal pathways, establishing why a low-camera, family-based vantage can refresh debates on migration, housing, and urban policy in China and beyond.