The relationship between housingHousing typologies and street designStreet design is influenced by the need for privacy within the home. Given that housingHousing stock comprises the majority of buildings in cities, how each housingHousing typology addresses the need for privacy has a dramatic effect on the character of streets in a city. Distance and elevation between the front door and street, views into and out of the home are critical to the feeling of shelter andStreet safetysafetySafety. Yet removing the home too far from the street or other homes can undermine the visual interest, safetySafety, and character of the street. This essay examines case studies from postwar Italian housingHousing projects where designers employed clever design strategies to maintain the pedestrianPedestrians quality and visual interest of the street while still providing the necessary privacy inside the home. The Italian Ina-Casa Plan (1949–1963) designed and built nearly 400,000 units of working-class housingHousing across the peninsula and islands after the second World War. These projects employ a wide variety of housingHousing typologies designed to not only create domestic privacy but also to foster interesting and lively streetscapes and neighborhoods. Section and plan diagrams analyzing the tactics employed by designers illustrate how the urban life of residential streets may be maintained in residential areas. Comparative case studies of Ina-Casa housingHousing typologies varying from townhouses to tower blocks (1949–1963) reveal how housingHousing and street designsStreet design can balance visual interest, densityDensity, safetySafety, and the need for domestic privacy.