This research investigates how spaces are designed and contested by people directly or indirectly affected by the São José Housing Complex of the Minha Casa, Minha Vida Program, considering that spaces are created and projected in and through language. Using a qualitative and interpretive ethnographic approach, interviews and field notebooks are employed for data generation. The theoretical-analytical foundations explore concepts such as chronotopes, scale, orders of indexicality, heterotopia, topophilia/topophobia, and narrative analysis. The data reveal not only the subalternization of space in an unequal society but also the effects of this categorization on the process of subjectivity construction among members of disadvantaged classes. Thus, emotions such as fear, shock, and dreams emerge in the construction of multiple spaces—physical, symbolic, and social. Space, in this sense, is conceived as a mechanism of territorialization and deterritorialization that produces dynamics of power and sociality, stratifying people and resources.