Social habitation in Natal (1889-1964)

Author(s)

Caliane Christie Oliveira de Almeida

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2007-09-26

Examining board members

Telma de Barros Correia; Paulo Yassuhide Fujioka; Maria Ruth Amaral de Sampaio

• Advisor: Telma de Barros Correia

Abstract

The subject of this dissertation is \"the public politics for habitation\", and it has as case of study, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte - Natal. The object of the study consists in the relation between the issues of social habitation in Brazil, the solutions given to the problem by the means of the state, the financial supporters, propelling and constructors involved on this process and the construction and he idealization of the city of Natal. Being thus, the research intend to understand which are the logics and the objectives that stimulated the State actions in the field of social habitation in Natal, from 1889 to 1964, and also, the ideological, economical and social contexts in this process. From this analysis, one searched to specify the origins and to delimit the production\'s evolution process of the social habitations, and also register and divide in periods that production, standing out the Retirement and Pension\'s Institute\'s (IAPs) actuation in the city. Later, the justifications and the speeches based on the State actions were interpreted and analyzed, considering the different agents involved in the process, beyond the study of the housing estate\'s architectonic and urban configuration, built in this period. Doing so, one realized the primary data survey at the city\'s public and private archives. The research is justified by the deficiency of local historiography on habitation\'s public politics in the period before the creation of the BNH, in 1964, by the significant number of houses built by the State and by associated organs and by the habitation\'s politic particularities in Natal, such as the government partnerships, including those with international organs, and the mud houses\' financing and construction. Considering this, it was identified as significant number of mud houses and inserted on IAP\'s real estate actions in Natal, by meanings of construction, acquisition and repass or by reform\'s financings. Such housings had arrived to correspond to 20% of financings granted by the Carteira Predial do Instituto, as the IAP dos industriários\' case. The IAPs in set with the Popular House Foundation and with the Popular Habitation Foundation had conceived housings to, approximately 3.100 families, between the years 1946 and 1963, which corresponds to 8,12% of the city\'s population in the middle of the decade of 1960. This research intends to contribute for the social habitation knowledge of the history in Brazil, through the actions\' analysis in Natal. (AU)