Progress made at home with routes (7)
I believe the answer is:
inroads
'progress' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'at home with routes' is the wordplay.
'at home' becomes 'in' ('in' can be similar in meaning to 'at home').
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'routes' becomes 'roads' ('road' can be a synonym of 'route').
'in'+'roads'='INROADS'
'made' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for inroads that I've seen before include "Making them is reductive" , "advances" , "Hostile incursions" , "Encroachments" , "large quantities consumed when these are made" .)