This research aims to investigate the construction of the home from the forms of appropriation of space, demonstrated by the residents of the social housing complex, called San Francisco, in Asunción, Paraguay. This complex was built to relocate the population from an informal settlement called La Chacarita, located on the banks of the Paraguay River in the historic center of Asunción, which faces cyclical flooding and was affected by urban infrastructure interventions that aggravated this situation. Considering that this population has suffered a process of compulsory removal from their original settlement, this research seeks to identify the forms of appropriation in a programmed space, fruit of an architectural project making them created spaces, that is, transformed from the production of adaptation tactics by the inhabitants themselves (Machado-Martins; Trotta, 2020), and how the removal influences this appropriation process. For this, we will consider historical facts that were collected from intensive bibliographical research, and the trajectories and experiences of the families until arriving at their place of residence, observing and analyzing the processes of adaptation and transformation in the set. Since the relationship between the lived environment and people establishes a mutual exchange - because people transform places, but places also interfere in people s practices and create a habit - this research mobilizes the concept of dwelling, not only as the use of space itself, but as a basic relationship between the individual and the world, of appropriation of the place, of creating bonds, of a sense of belonging and identity between the person and the place (Pallasmaa, 2016; Tuan, 1983). Sense of home is also considered as a construct demonstrated from the appropriation of space and the endowment of meanings to place.