While home should represent trust and safety, from one day to the next it can become a major source of insecurity by becoming a site of daily harassment and violence. How can we conceptualize such violence? This paper presents a literature review of sexual harassment in housing that is perpetrated by people in positions of power such as landlords, building managers and superintendents. Although this issue affects many women around the world, it remains under documented in comparison to other forms of sexual harassment and violence.