The citizenship term has many connotations. Preliminarily we could understand that being a citizen is to be guaranteed the right to social participation consciously which, in turn, is allowed only when the human being has guaranteed the right to work, education, health and housing, as will be explained in this paper. The specific point of approach is the Rental Agreement. This has been influenced in their discipline, the legislative policy of protecting the weak. Due to the distressing housing crisis, legal measures have been dictated to support tenants, especially the urban ones. Although character emerging legal precepts tutelage of a mandatory nature, alters the traditional content of the contract, and you modify the classic profile. One of the most common forms of location is the real estate, residential or commercial, governed by specific laws in Brazil, intended to regulate relations between lessees and lessors, thereby ensuring the impossibility of abuse of rights. This is a study whose primary goal is to know and meet some important documentation about the Tenancy Act Laws used in the literature.