Chapter 2 follows a series of political transformations that granted organizations of private property owners called resident welfare associations (RWAs) unheralded political power in millennial Delhi, setting the stage for their views of civility and urban order to become normalized within state practice. It examines an urban governance experiment that narrowed the spaces of political representation once open to the poor, defined property ownership as a condition for political participation, and empowered property owners to extend their visions of urban space across the public sphere—the first step in consolidating the world-class aesthetic. By defining RWAs as the representatives of civil society and incorporating their distinctly propertied notions of public space, this “good governance” program—aimed at increasing transparency and state accountability—had the contradictory effect of gentrifying the state.