The widespread abuse of socially owned apartments and a perennial housing shortage in Yugoslavia prompted the campaign "You have a house, return the flat" in 1982. This article traces the development (and the ultimately lacklustre results) from its beginnings in Prizren, Kosovo, to its Yugoslav-wide adoption. Throughout the campaign trade unions and sympathisers were unable to systematically rein in the abuse of privilege on the part of elites and ordinary citizens alike and the campaign was frequently ridiculed as an empty party slogan. The anti-elite sentiment evident in discussions of housing abuse would however find expression just a few years later during the 1988-1989 Anti-bureaucratic revolution.