Because here is my house!: old practices and new possibilities in housing complexes of the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program

Author(s)

Viviane Fernanda de Oliveira Carvalho

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Presidente Prudente. 2019-04-16.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente
• Defense date: 2019-02-25
• Advisor: Eda Maria Goes

Abstract

The My House, My Life program (PMCMV), launched in the Lula Government (2009) and with continuity in the Government of Dilma Rousseff, both of the Workers Party (PT), was directed to three income brackets, which had as a double objective to economy and to reduce the housing deficit, subsidizing housing from credit and reducing interest on financing, and the construction companies are responsible for building housing complexes, based on pre-established criteria. Without disregarding the vast and important work already published on the effects of PMCMV in the urban perspective and, especially, specifically in the real estate market, we tried to show in this thesis its effects on the daily life of the beneficiary inhabitants. Among the methodological procedures adopted, we conducted interviews with well-informed agents and city dwellers in the new housing complexes: Jardim Panorâmico, Residencial Tapajós, Residencial Bela Vista, Residencial Cremonezi and Jardim João Domingos Netto housing complex, in Presidente Prudente and Jardim Zavaglia, Residencial Planalto Verde and Residencial Eduardo Abdelnur, in São Carlos. All horizontal allotments open and directed to track 1 of the PMCMV, focused on income from 0 to 3 minimum wages. In addition, observations and categorizations of these residents' publications were carried out in closed groups aimed at the housing complexes on Facebook. Based on their articulations to solve the new problems of the present peripheries, we discuss the role of the house in these urban spaces in relation to the conquest of citizenship and the process of socio-spatial fragmentation. The interest in this analytical perspective is justified by the complexity involved in the daily life of these residents, which combines the acquisition of the home, considered as its main positive aspect, with circumstances such as residence in areas far from the center, monofunctional and / or public transportation inadequate, inadequate to the needs of the family, etc. Thus, we analyze the implications of the acquisition of the own house, subsidized from neoliberal policies in the periphery of two medium-sized cities of São Paulo, Presidente Prudente and São Carlos, for its different inhabitants, questioning if the strategies they use to overcome the problems arising from this location can strengthen the process of socio-spatial fragmentation or enable a new "insurgency of citizenship" (Holston, 2013). As a main result, we show the broadly contradictory character that characterizes the new forms of politicization in the new peripheries, establishing themselves on a threshold between collective and individual demands, based on the market itself. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/26118-0 - The program Minha Casa Minha Vida in Presidente Prudente and São Carlos - SP: new suburbs and new meanings of housing?
• Grantee: Viviane Fernanda de Oliveira Carvalho
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate