| Summary: | The issue of homeless people in Chile and Latin America has been framed as a masculinized issue, rendering women who spend the night on the streets invisible. This article examines the experiences of homeless women in the city of Temuco, Chile, considering the impact of gender stereotypes in the practices, displacements, and relationships that are formed when sharing spaces and distributing roles. Through a qualitative research methodology, interviews were conducted with women who sleep on the street rather than in night shelters. The main conclusion is that patriarchal systems and the traditional gender role distributions are replicated in the population living on the street, determining homeless women’s specific ways of inhabiting the urban space. Due to the insecurity and violence they experience when on the street, women have limited freedom of movement from the place they consider their home turf, and fewer possibilities to develop connections and obtain the necessary income to eventually get off the streets.
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