With the changes and limitations due to the pandemic, social movements for housing rights readjust their
activities and experiment with new practices. This short story aims to narrate how, through cooperation
with groups in other countries, a collective in Lisbon reformulates its activities and achieves unprecedented
results. I will tell how the Habita! association began working on new popular advocacy strategies, and how
it managed to appeal to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in order to avoid evictions
of vulnerable subjects and force local governments to offer housing solutions.
