Elliott-Cooper, Hubbard and Lees recast displacement as un-homing, a process that exceeds eviction by rupturing the material, emotional and symbolic relation between people and place. The iconic idea is that gentrification is violent not only when bodies are physically removed, but when the conditions of home are progressively destroyed through exclusion, expulsion, insecurity and dispossession. Its theoretical contribution is to extend Marcuse’s typology toward a broader account of psychosocial, temporal and affective damage. Methodologically, the article works as a conceptual synthesis, organising geographical debates on displacement across scale, speed and lived consequence. Its conceptual operation is scalar intensification: displacement becomes visible as a continuum from anticipatory anxiety to enforced mobility. The bridge to the wider field connects urban political economy, housing justice, affect theory, violence studies and critical geography.