Definition: "vote in favour"

This is a charade - where two or more parts are placed next to each other to form the answer word.

Break this into two parts: find a word meaning 'dwelling' (5 letters) and add a single letter that represents 'tense' in grammar.

Answer: PLACET | PLACE (dwelling, as in 'your place or mine?') + T (tense, the grammatical abbreviation)