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Medellín has experienced a strong urban renewal during the 2004-2011 administrations in which they developed the best infrastructure, public space and housing projects in the poorest and most violent areas, making it a specialized laboratory in city issues, while projecting it as an innovative and inclusive city. In order to understand the different meanings associated with the change that Medellín is experiencing, this article looks at a Social Interest Housing project in buildings located in the commune 2, with the objective of knowing how to establish the social and material dimension that converges in this intervention. For this, a socio-spatial analysis was carried out based on theories such as the trialéctica of the space proposed by Henri Lefebvre, the imaginaries of Armando Silva and the reflections on the uneven accumulation of the capitalist city of David Harvey. To understand the use and significance that the inhabitants give to this project, a qualitative research was carried out using the ethnographic method, to identify which encounters and disagreements emerge when a city that seeks to increase the quality of life of Its citizens through the improvement of housing is transformed.