Beyond a simple buildings forthat accommodates one or more people to live in, dwellingshousing is are complex and multifaceted propertiesy that embodyincludes a variety of means and purposes. Housing can be a source ofprovides pride;, it provides a foundation for the family, a cultural and collective identity, a network, social support, and security for the people who live there. It is also thea basis onby which the members of a human group of people are rooted in a territory and a community, but whichand also allowoffersing them also to protect themselvesprotection from the territory community and the communityterritory. IncreasinglyHowever, several phenomena are increasingly weaken undermining this relationship with housing and spaces. 

Just some examples of these phenomena areT the forced relocation of the tenants to allow the developers to transform the built environment, increasing housing sanitation problems of sanitation of the dwellings that contribute to social exclusion, continuous escalating increase in rents in the absence of adequate regulation mechanisms, and discrimination that limits access to housing for certain categories of individualssocial groups are just some examples. ThePeople who suffer  victims of these phenomena, including tenants, face eviction processes that force them out of dispossession of their living spaces and neighborhoods. The inequalities embedded in these phenomena have multiple dimensions that can interact with each other, whether they beregardless of being political, spatial, economic or even environmental, and have impacts at the individual, family, social and territorial levels. The refore, the study of inequalities in housing istherefore offers a relevant sociological entry point to understand what characterizes contemporary social experiences, especially in the urban contextones, but also the social question of, that is, how unequal social relations are implemented.

Renaud Goyer & Jean-Vincent Bergeron-Gaudin, coord. Àgora