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| Author(s): |
Roberta dos Reis Neuhold
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2009-11-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Celia Pinheiro Machado Paoli;
Nabil Georges Bonduki;
Cibele Saliba Rizek
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| Advisor: | Maria Celia Pinheiro Machado Paoli |
| Abstract | |
This paper analyses the experiences of homeless movements claiming housing polices for people on low-income in the central area of the city of São Paulo. It inquires about to what extent their main strategy of pressure the squatting introduced new criteria for judging in discussions on the rehabilitation in the central area, which included the poor peoples rights to inhabit a consolidated region of the city. The investigation consisted of researches in literature, documents (newspapers and the movements archives) and field investigation (visit to the occupied buildings), as well as interviews with the coordinators of the homeless movements. More than 70 squatterisms in empty buildings and lands, public and private, which happened between 1997 and 2007, were identified. It also confirms the hypothesis that the homeless movements managed to express their demands, facilitate the assistance of a portion of its members in different lines of residential care and become protagonists in unprecedented programs for the remodeling and recycling of abandoned buildings for residential use in the central area. Nevertheless, despite these conquers, the posture of governmental agencies to face up to their demands alternated between, on one side, the use of institutional violence, which silences and disqualifies the forms of dissent, and, on the other side, the development of polices that remained away from the idea of universalization of rights. (AU) | |