When social experiences do not correspond to expectations, that is, when social regulation is far from the expected social emancipation, we discover that certain communities link their social struggles to the achievement of some subjectively usurped rights. To this end, they constitute multiple spaces in which problems are shared and thus begin to make visible their possible solutions. In this sense, we discern the way in which these spaces of socialization end up redefining themselves in spaces of collective action. With this in mind, in this article we present the result of a comparative ethnographic research of two social movements with obvious symbolic, political, cultural and social differences, but which converge in a common mainstay: the right to decent housing. These are, on the one hand, the squatting movement and, on the other, the anti-eviction struggle, materialized in the Platform of People Affected by Mortgages (PAH, by its Spanish initials). Both develop similar cultural practices in the different spaces of socialization through their respective struggles and spaces of collective action. After an analysis from the applied anthropology, it is concluded that these spaces, whether physical — social centers, bars, squares, etc. — or symbolic —demonstrations, rallies, parties, etc. — serve to reconfigure and reinforce personal and collective identities through the sharing of demanding practices and experiences.