The residential buildings and the groups of contained housings have been constituted in a form of inhabiting the contemporary cities. This particular, novel way and with tendency to be generalized responds to crisscross contextual and subjective factors, centered in the problem of the insecurity of the cities. This article gives bill of this phenomenon from its origin, and it analyzes the reasons expressed by residents of the Residential Spaces Multifamiliaries of the city of Cali, to choose this kind of housing.