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The article was developed based on bibliographic and field research, based on the critical historical dialectical materialism. It aims to study about the relative overpopulation, investigating its current configuration and the linking of the homeless to this group. The result is the integration of the homeless to the relative overpopulation, especially in the stagnant form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the homeless, a multifaceted expression of the social question that demonstrates the misery caused by the capitalist mode of production. The majority of those who use informal work as their main survival strategy are in the streets. A bibliographic research was carried out, with a qualitative approach, based on the critical-dialectical theory. The objective is to understand why and how the homeless composes or not the working class. This study defends an enlarged vision of the working class, which embraces all those who live by the sale of their labour force, and, it highlights the relevance of Marx's work. It is understood that the homeless population is part of the working class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]