This article is part of initiatives to achieve a more sustainable habitat and a better quality of life for human settlements; mainly with the aim of incorporating new approaches and contributing to more equal and fairer urban development for the inhabitants of cities, especially those in the most precarious settlements. It also responds to the call made in the conclusions of the FOROHABITAT Discussion Days of October 1995, which tends to have ‘an active position against exclusion and discrimination through mobilisation and pressure to incorporate dimensions that are not considered: gender, environment, quality, location, diversity, etc.’. Based on previous research and in particular the experience of a case of community organisation in a Caracas neighbourhood, it draws conclusions and proposes that aspects of sustainability, participation and gender be introduced interrelated into urban policies.