ADVANCES AND LIMITATIONS OF URBAN REGULATION IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF MEDIUM-SIZED MUNICIPALITIES IN BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA

• Grant number: 24/05980-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: January 01, 2025
• Status: Discontinued
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Civil Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Luciana Márcia Gonçalves
• Grantee: Natasha Nême Gonçalves de Almeida
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/00285-2 - Analysis of interventions in the domain and urban regularization of the popular neighborhoods of La Plata: the cases of Puente de Fierro, Ringuelet and El Molino, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

In the 20th century, rapid demographic growth and uncontrolled urban expansion in Latin America resulted in the formation of irregular settlements in cities. The right to adequate housing has been widely studied at national and international levels; however, its multidimensional nature, as defined in UN General Comment No. 4, still lacks parameters for analysis and application. An important step in defining such parameters is the evaluation of political actions promoted by legal instruments. Urban and housing policy has undergone important milestones in Brazil, with the Federal Constitution (1988), the City Statute (2001) and, in Argentina, with the Argentine Constitution (1994) and the Ley de Accesso Justo al Habitat (2013). In both countries, particularly the field of land regularization, there was a significant change with the implementation of the new Brazilian model of the Urban Land Regularization Law (13,465/2017) and the Land Regularization Law for Socio-urban Integration (27,453/2016). Despite the diversity of housing programs implemented in Argentina or by the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program in Brazil, the housing needs of the low-income population remain and access to urbanized land is highly financialized. Considering such paradigm shifts in the last 15 years, the objective of this study is to evaluate the advances and limits of political actions taken in interventions in irregular settlements - at the municipal and provincial level in selected cases - in the medium-sized cities of Bauru (SP) and La Plata (province of Buenos Aires) regarding access to urbanized land by the low-income population through land regularization and urban planning. Through the selected case studies, the aim is to promote an exchange of experiences. The methodology will include bibliometric and bibliographic review, documentary research, field research and qualitative and quantitative assessment of the right to adequate housing, involving the dimensions of security of tenure; location and availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure.