O direito à moradia como cumprimento da função social da propriedade pública: um estudo de caso do Programa Minha Morada de Araraquara-SP

Abstract

The right to housing has been discussed more widely in Brazil since the 1980s, when popular movements for the right to live in a dignified manner emerged. As a result, debates on urban property and its social function also gain space in the urban policy scenario. When observing the country's housing deficit, it is clear that this discussion is still current. With the approval of the City Statute in 2001, new tools appear for the organization of urban territory and enable the production of housing of social interest. In this sense, this work addresses issues of the right to the city, mainly in the context of the Federal Constitution of 1988, discusses the social function of the city and property, especially that of public urban property, and argues that the government can provide housing of social interest as a way of fulfilling the social function of the urban voids of public property. From the case study of the Minha Morada Program, a local initiative of the municipality of Araraquara-SP, it analyzes the program that allocates empty urban areas of public property to a program of urbanized lots, in view of the insufficiency federal housing policies and the inadequacy of the social profile of the population that makes up most of the deficit. The results demonstrate that by allocating areas well served by infrastructure and public facilities for a housing policy that serves the most socioeconomically vulnerable population, the program seeks to fulfill the social function of public urban property, promoting decent housing within the local context, meeting the specificities of the city's housing deficit.