The housing pathways framework has emerged as a valuable constructivist approach to understanding how individuals navigate housing over time, considering both agency and structural constraints. However, the framework remains methodologically ambiguous, and has most often been operationalized through a traditional discourse analysis of interviews. Given an ongoing theoretical acknowledgment of the spatial and temporal dimensions of housing pathways, I argue that empirical work has continued to overlook these. This presentation argues that an expanded methodological approach, incorporating a mixed-methods approach to spatial practices and subjective perceptions of place, can deepen our understanding of housing pathways. Participatory mapping and qualitative GIS can provide a means to bridge the subjective and structural dimensions of housing experiences by georeferencing housing-related narratives and practices. Through a critical literature review of housing studies research and conceptual synthesis of research approaches from within geography, this presentation highlights the potential of various mapping and qualitative GIS approaches to meaningfully integrate spatiality into housing pathways research. My aim is to strengthen the theoretical framework while also offering a renewed methodological direction for analyzing housing experiences as embedded within urban environments.