The goal of this dissertation is to understand the confrontation of refugees in Sao Paulo s city in which relates to access to housing. Starting from the experiences that occurred in Sao Paulo for the effort of welcome for refugees of different nationalities, housing have not been a matter of public policy yet, with gaps for the guarantee of access. For this, it is necessary to identify the refugee s experiences in individual and collective models. Four interviews were carried out in the Reception centers and halfway house located in São Paulo and three interviews with two individuals with refugee status and a son of a Palestinian couple who articulates the residences in an occupation in the city center. It was possible to identify the limits and possibilities of the host services by the interviews. The individual searches and the mobilization network of solidarity built among the refugees make up the difficulty setting of the right to housing, marked by a forced displacement occurred in the migration process.