Systemic discrimination is a useful concept to understand racism and xenophobia issues that allows a collective conversation about our collective practices. However, it’s use does not allows to understand how it is experienced. This article aims to underline the production of inequalities in the housing experience of tenants using the notion of social experience to analyze unequal social relations and documents the deployment of xenophobia in the experience of tenants impeding them to control their relation to their house, their neighborhood and their city.