This project examines the idea of existenzminimum as a socio-cultural question of livability: that is, what might be considered a livable minimum as opposed to merely an existenzminimum? With the habits and possessions of inhabitants at the center of this research, minimum is explored in all its multitudes—minimum possessions, minimum space, minimum materials, minimum structures, minimum gardens, and so on—an excess minimum. Three, physically connected houses were designed on a vacant city owned lot, in a collective re-imagining of Chicago’s “three-flat” typology.