This article presents several ways of analyzing the question of the political and social citizenship of homeless people. Although homelessness and citizenship have historically been considered mirror twins (Two sides of the same coin), legislators are gradually working to address this issue. However, this legal metamorphosis does not put an end to the correlations between the concrete conditions that homeless people experience and a hindered experience of political and social citizenship. There are many sheltering and supporting organizations, all of which have a differing view of homeless people’s citizenship, and implement very different practices when it comes to supporting their civic life. Thus, while the “participation of the people” is at the center of the concerns, this form of supervised citizenship can paradoxically contribute to confinement in a “diminished world”. Street people are then confined to “second-class citizenship situations”, although the law affirms that they are full citizens.