City meeting: urban living practices as bonds for the production of care in the streets

This paper aims to present the potential city dwelling tactics and strategies employed by People Living on the Streets (PLS) in Brasilia, Brazil, to reflect on the production of care and bonding within the Brazilian PHC (known as APS). First, we will discuss the broad sense of this notion of living as a set of everyday creations and innovations established as transient and circumstantial ways of creating bonds and care and as daily tools of health workers within the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). We will then present two PLS narratives to offer examples of actions performed in their homes built in the streets. The analysis of these encounters allows us to contextualize their lives on the streets, highlighting the movements that lead to the invisibility of this population and the precarious and fragile state of these practices and existences in and of the city. As a final perspective, we will point to the meeting of these living practices with the actions and technologies used by health workers in the process of self-care in the urban spaces.