A questão habitacional no âmbito da Operação Urbana Consorciada Água Espraiada na cidade de São Paulo - SP

Abstract

In Brazil, the urbanistic instrument Urban Partnership Operation was regulated by the City Statute in 2001. With public and private capital, this instrument seeks implement a series of urban interventions in specific area of the city, aiming structural urban transformations, social improvements and ambiental valuation of this region. The city of São Paulo was pioneer in use of this instrument, it was included in Master Plans since 1985, with a series of adaptations from its beginning to the present day. The objective of this dissertation is analyze the housing issue involved in the application of this instrument, specifically in Água Espraiada, implemented in 2001 in São Paulo, focusing on the production of social housing and social and economical care to the population directly affected by the operation. Through a careful analysis of documents, data and informations provided by the city of São Paulo, as well as bibliographical and documentary research, was possible to observe contradictions in the application of the instrument in the case studied. Despite the social appeal contained in the discourse of Urban Partnership Operation, the economic purpose of its application was evident, once priority was given to real estate capital, to detriment of a more inclusive urban policy. In conclusion, even with the implementation of the new Strategic Master Plan of 2014, tha contradictions of capitalist urbanization are present in the county, evidencing the power of private capital in the conduct of urban development of the city. It is also pointed limits in the application of the operations, so that they are implanted through different dynamics from those initially prevalent and move away from the exclusionary and concentrative nature that has chacacterized it.