What territorial anchors are used in situations of great instability and estrangement? Does there exist a permanent private space for highly dissocialized people? Considering the ideas of occupied surface area, layout and visibility of the living place, we analyze the existing relationships between the use and/or investment of private space and the degree of individual estrangement. Makeshift shelters, collective housing, and public space reveal the complexity of the private space for people living in great uncertainty and show how living place preserves socialization when any other (relational, economic, social, or professional) support has disappeared.