Based on several years of qualitative research (2020-2025), this article describes how people facing housing insecurity manage — or not — to store their personal belongings in a city that is as hostile as it is supportive. While the urban market space offers few resources for the safe storage of personal possessions, support centres (day centres, shelters, etc.) for people experiencing precarious housing conditions are not designed for the safekeeping of personal property. Faced with this shortcoming in public policy, working-class populations facing housing insecurity, whether homeless or not, are forced to devise ways to obtain personal items and keep them for the long term. This article analyses these many logistical expedients, highlighting the physical, mental and economic burdens they place on the people who use them daily. In addition to a lack of space in which to store their belongings, the author sets out to show that people who lack accommodation are demanding not so much a volume of habitable space as the right to live in it. Without this right to occupy a space, the rights of unstable working-class populations are significantly undermined, especially their property rights.