Care is the provision of practical or emotional support, is increasingly recognized as a critical part of our lives and societies, and yet is undervalued in part because it remains gendered and racialized labour. As housing crises exist in most cities in Canada and the United States today, developing an understanding of how housing too can provide care in unequal housing systems is increasingly urgent. Care helps us to develop understandings of housing through its value as shelter and home, rather than as a source of profit: a vital intervention in settler colonial, racial capitalist housing systems. Recently, geographers have begun to theorize the relationship between housing and care, yet our understandings of the role of care in creating more just urban housing futures remains understudied. In this talk, I engage feminist care theory and critical housing geographies to consider how landlord-tenant laws shape conditions for care and how this in turn impacts what I theorize as tenants’ housing care imaginaries. Drawing on interviews with tenants in Vancouver, BC and Seattle, WA about their experiences with landlord-tenant laws, I argue that tenants’ housing care imaginaries are established through how individuals understand their experiences of care in housing in a contemporary context and how this then shapes what they imagine individually and collectively for urban housing futures that can meet all of our care needs. I suggest that housing care imaginaries can play a valuable role in policy responses to housing crises that centre tenants’ own housing knowledge and expertise.