I have a dropdown attribute called "Housing" (attribute code "housing").
I want to get the text of the selected option for a product but the "getAttributeText" function returns nothing.

My code:

```
$product_object = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId);
$housing = $product_object->getHousing();
echo $housing;
echo "<br>";

$housing = $product_object->getAttributeText('housing');
echo $housing;
echo "<br>";

$housing = $product_object->getHousingText();
echo $housing;
echo "<br>";

```

The function getHousing returns the correct option id but "getAttributeText" and "getHousingText" doesn't return anything.

Any ideas why?