“…One of these experiences is the Canadian one, which, from the 1960s, begins its deinstitutionalization process, mobilized by the rehabilitation of skills valorization, this country proposed the creation of different housing modalities, structured for different degrees of autonomy: small pavilions, host family, transition house, supervised apartments, satellite apartments, and finally autonomous housing. 4 Since the 2000s, Canada, as well as Brazil, 5 has seen a movement towards access to housing as a social and fundamental right, pointing to the need for convergence of monitoring and variable support, at the individual level, with intersectoral actions aimed at access to community housing, guaranteed at the structural level of governments. 4 Access to housing (with individual and community support) is understood as the exercise of citizenship.…”