This essay looks at the pay-and-use toilet—an urban facility that has come to occupy an important place in the present vision of achieving open-defecation-free cities—through the lens of houseless labour migrants in Ahmedabad. It explores the motivations and logics that determine the location, financing and management of these toilets, and shows how this infrastructural imagination and space overlaps with, but also remains at odds with, the logics and practices through which migrants inhabit and access sanitation within the city. In order to ensure these sanitation systems privilege human dignity, the essay argues that it is necessary to recognize the multiple labours—physical and psychological, spatial and temporal—through which migrants fulfil their basic bodily needs such that they may also build their economic, social and domestic lives.