Our research examines Roma neighbourhoods in Bulgaria as enduring sites of insecurity—both physical and ontological—and contested urban space. Originating in the socialist era, many of these spaces were left unlegalised by successive authorities, exposing residents to chronic evictability: a condition shaped by historical policy, commercial pressure, and racialised exclusion. In our paper, we will use case studies from Stara Zagora and Sofia in Bulgaria to highlight how Roma neighbourhoods that emerged during the socialist period—but whose status has increasingly been called into question since then—can be interpreted as a hybrid form of tangible and intangible heritage. While they were tolerated under socialism, even though they did not officially comply with urban zoning plans, they have since become the subject of growing dispute, with their inhabitants increasingly subjected to a politics of eviction. We draw on Huub van Baar’s (2017) concept of evictability, defined as the possibility of being removed from a sheltering place. Van Baar proposes this notion to expand migration and border studies beyond rigid national frameworks, arguing that contemporary displacement often transcends formal borders and legal categories. At the same time, evictability has a political-historical dimension, since the conditions under which people are or become evictable are not only linked to socioeconomic circumstances, but also to a persistent history of racialised exclusion — both in material-spatial terms and in symbolic senses. Evictability, in this respect, captures the persistent vulnerability of individuals and communities whose existence has been irregularized, marginalised, and perpetually threatened. We propose a lens through which to read these neighbourhoods not only as marginalised spaces and problematized heritage of the socialist past, but also as terrains of ontological insecurity—where the threat of displacement undermines not only physical stability but the very sense of self, legitimacy, and urban or national belonging. We trace how residents, authorities, and activists have navigated this difficult heritage—that is often even not understood or recognized as a socialist heritage—and how these processes have shaped both the material conditions and the perceptions of these urban spaces. Identifying the variation in responses—ranging from NGO-led efforts to integrate Roma neighbourhoods into the urban fabric, to strategic litigation and relocation schemes—we ask how such interventions are experienced by residents themselves and what strategies they have developed to maintain these contested urban spaces, to reduce their experiences of ontological insecurity and to articulate their sense of urban belonging.