Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"

[The Voice of Time]

If you live in a city (it does not have to be as big as Oslo for instance) then you can explore a new part of it every day.

First of all. No, sooner or later you run out of streets.

Second of all, the diversity you will find is scarce after a while. A city is always self-similar, even the multicultural ones. Very soon you run out of significant differences in its parts.

[Wyman]

@Questionmark - you are right that the relationship between our homes and identity could well be the other way round and what I am interested in how does it change a person - morally, psychologically and pathologically.

While I haven't yet considered the angle of material belongings in a home, e.g. a chair versus my chair, because in these cases, as you pointed out, material wealth is an important consideration. My interest is more in how having a place to call home (or not) changes us. And I think that is what @duszek is hinting towards as well; that a home may not be physical at all. That facet also is very interesting, the assumption being that everyone needs/wants a home, physical or not - which is what I want to explore more.

If a person has never lived in one, has always to fend for him/herself in the streets, does that person have a strong identity of the self and would that person want/need a home, or has the experience fundamentally transformed the person?

Btw @duszek can you please help me find that story from Virginia Woolf.

see also My Own Private Idaho