• Home-located creative workers still cluster in inner city areas. • Class occupation is a structural force shaping residential decisions. • A production-consumption nexus operates in and constrains housing choices. • A fragmented supply of infrastructure affects the geography of home-based workers. • Social ties influence the consumption and production of home-located workers. This paper brings to light how the literature discussing the housing choices of home-located workers is still timid in considering the deep forces of class and urban heterogeneity. While housing studies have advanced in their understanding of the weight of amenities and lifestyles in residential location, the mainstream home-located work literature focuses mostly on commuting costs (monetary and time-wise). Common to this literature is the reproduction of an “individual choice paradigm” with respect to residential location. To tackle these issues, the present article analysed the consumption and production dynamics of home-located artists and designers in Melbourne, Australia, showcasing how, beyond individual choice, their “residential differentiation” responds to – or is co-constituted by – the splintered geography of the urban fabric and the particular “techno-creative habitus” driving their preferences and requirements for housing and work. Building a conceptual framework around the production-consumption nexus, mediated by social ties, this article contributes to both the creative class and home-located work literatures and offers avenues for further research at the intersection of housing and work.
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