Abstract
The text follows some categorizations created to name the homeless, to the point of being called in Brazil "População em Situação de Rua" (Population in a Homeless Situation). Said category expresses one of the limits of urban poverty and, in a transversal way, the bourgeois, white and patriarchal expropriation. At the urban level, it is the result of the city's dispersion, segmentation and peripheralization movements. The homeless, on the other hand, animate a philanthropic system that creates its codes and techniques of framing and salvation. Despite the nominations, a perennial and uncapturable life emerges from the streets, with survival and protection strategies that defy the weight that the names given to them bring, as well as city policies.
Keywords:
Homeless population; Population in a homeless situation; Public policy; Urban poverty