This article aims to discuss three common lines that make up the action repertoire of the housing movement of the city of São Paulo: squattings, participation in institucional spheres, (specially the Municipal Housing Council) and the right to the city. We intended to recover part of the history of these practices and routines, and here we present the heterogeneity of the arguments that support and question them. Therefore, we present the housing movement as heterogeneous and plural, whose militants struggle for dignified housing. The article is based on a survey, applied in the 11th State Meeting of Popular Housing, organized by the Union of the Housing Movement, which happenned in São Paulo, in 2009.
social movement; right to the city; participation; squatting; Housing Council
