This paper addresses the distinctive characteristics of policies focused on illegally occupied villages and dwellings in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, over the 1950Argentina, over the -2002 period. It also analyzes the implementation of a certain set of housing initiatives in successive authoritarian and democratic eras, which ranged from establishment/eradication and inclusion/ exclusion. The objective of this research is to provide further insights into the 100-year-old history of policies oriented towards popular sectors who live in illegally occupied villages and dwellings in Buenos Aires and whose prevalent hallmarks are vagrancy, partiality and violence. This study argues that housing policies are 194 31 (88): 193-215, noviembre de 2016 ARTÍCULO: Policies Focused on Illegally Occupied Villages and Dwellings in Buenos Aires: Inclusion-Exclusion Tension/Felipe Ochsenius, María Carman, Vanina Lekerman, Marina Wertheimerparecen haberse constituido como una constante de este conjunto de políticas habitacionales, basados en la concepción, más o menos tácita, de que el lugar "natural" de residencia de los sectores populares es fuera de la ciudad capital.