Abstract the paper gathers the results of the proposed investigative exercise for the analysis of public policy established by the national Government focused on the delivery of housing subsidies in kind to the population relocated throughout the Housing San Sebastian municipality of Manizales, and its impact on the realization of human development standards related to the use and collective enjoyment of the urban space, as well as the exercise of the right to the city by the collectivity. These so-called additionally allow you to deepen the study of the process of resettlement of population, seen beyond a simple relocation that will ensure rights of habitability. Through a qualitative methodological design, developed from a case study, the subject faces from a territorial perspective, and thus give rise to (i) characterize the contribution of the implementation of the public housing policy in species in the realization of human development standards relating to the use and collective enjoyment of the urban space for the target population of the housing complex San Sebastian; (ii) identify the resilience of the beneficiary population of public housing in kind policy, in its daily dynamic changes once are relocated to the san Sebastian neighborhood housing project; and (iii) identify legal mechanisms that ensure the realization of human development standards related to use and collective enjoyment of the urban space as well as the exercise of the right to the city from the experience of the housing project of barrio san Sebastian. The development of research identified as from the approaches of the model of occupation of the territory, the magnitude and dynamics of the contributions of subsidized housing to human development policy, and especially its argument falls short in the context of the needs of the inhabitants and former inhabitants. Goods and services become the needs that require to be fulfilled so that the beneficiary resolved positively its potential and realization, and claim the House as built space that stands out for its quality of physical habitability and symbolic. In addition, from the perspective of housing, relocation processes, and eventual population resettlement, consideration of the physical, natural, social and cultural variables needed for the construction of a new environment it should be implied vital to ensure the minimum conditions of habitability.