Abstract: This paper provides a review of key methodological concerns that arise in a study of discourses of housing policy relating to residential multi-occupancy in Melbourne. In the context of marked population growth and an escalating housing affordability crisis, household configurations that fall outside of the ‘mainstream’ model of one nuclear family per dwelling are increasingly common. Among these, 'multi-occupancy' or 'multi-family households' (MFHs) are the focus of this review. Despite increasing attention paid to these tenure types in public discourses, MFHs remain generally regarded as marginal and/or undesirable against 'mainstream' forms of tenure within Australian society. Further, while literature on multi-occupancy in Australia most often examines household-dwelling relationships from sociological or needs-based perspectives, less attention is paid to how attitudes and truths about these households are constructed and shaped, chiefly by the institutions of property. This paper reports on in-progress work that critically analyses how multi-occupancy household-dwelling relationships are constituted in property discourses, including whether and how these discourses reflect or even incite binaries of 'mainstream' and 'other' living configurations. In this paper, a preliminary output, we focus on the methodological challenges faced in the scoping, codifying and interpreting of these discourses, and draw on precedent critical urban and housing studies that employ discourse analysis methods to explain and justify our approach.