Judicialização do direito à moradia e transformação social: análise das ações civis públicas da Defensoria Pública do Estado de São Paulo

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Nassar, Paulo André
• Orientador(a): Dimoulis, Dimitri
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Constitucionalismo transformador; Judicialização de direitos sociais; Direito à moradia; Judicialização de políticas públicas; Ação civil pública; Defensoria pública
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Transformative constitutionalism; Social rights litigation; Judicialization of politics; Right to housing; Class action
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/9158

In this dissertation, I aim to assess Courts’ transformation performance on housing rights issues. I begin making reference to transformative constitutionalism theory, presenting its main thesis, and then I point out the transformative features of 1988’s Brazilian Constitution and make the distinction between dirigiste constitutionalism and transformative constitutionalism. Then I present and comment both the housing problem in Brazil and the Brazilian legal doctrine on housing rights. After that, I propose a multidisciplinary methodology developed to assess Courts’ transformation performance on housing rights issues. Finally, I present an empirical study that makes a systematic content analysis of 50 'class action' filled by the 'Defensoria Pública do Estado de Sao Paulo against the Municipality of São Paulo, which aims to modify the municipal housing policies to accommodate the interests of marginalized groups. I conclude that in these issues, Courts has a limited transformation capacity, since social change occurs only when political, social and economic agents are also engaged "out of court" and when there is political will of the government.