PRODUÇÃO DO ESPAÇO NA CIDADE, POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS DE HABITAÇÃO SOCIAL E A LUTA PELO DIREITO À MORADIA EM TRÊS LAGOAS (MS)

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Lucas Alexandre de Moura Bocato
• Orientador(a): Sedeval Nardoque
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Fundação Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Políticas Habitacionais. Investimento Público. Contradições do Sistema Capitalista. Moradia Popular.
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufms.br/handle/123456789/6431

URBAN SPACE PRODUCTION IN THE CITY, PUBLIC HOUSING POLICIES AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHT TO HOUSING IN TRÊS LAGOAS (MS) ABSTRACT The lack of housing access in Brazilian cities poses a contradiction inherent to the capitalist mode of production. On the one hand, there have been insufficient public investments in social housing, particularly since 2016. On the other hand, public funds have been channeled into private housing projects by developers and builders, with involvement from the financial market in financing transactions. These conjunctural contradictions go beyond issues related to housing investments and urban space production, as they involve the interaction of producing subjects, as well as their power to influence state structures, particularly in the formulation of public housing policies and state actions regarding urban production. Thus, they become inherent structural contradictions within the capitalist mode of production. Therefore, the goal of the present work is to comprehend how investments in social housing behaved after the Coup d'état disguised as an Impeachment Process suffered by the President Dilma Rousseff, concluded in August 2016 and, through data analysis, understand which social subjects were impacted by this coup led by the Brazilian National Congress. Based on this, this work aims to analyze the existing contradictions between the discourse of economic growth, such as the world capital of cellulose, and the problems of social housing for vulnerable people. Despite the vibrant production of urban space in the city, there are families struggling for housing in Três Lagoas. For the purpose of statistical analysis, the period from 2008 to 2021 was taken as a basis, which depicts the Minha Casa Minha Vida (My House My Life) programs, in order to compare housing investments in the supposedly progressive governments of Lula and Dilma. Bibliographic research, articles, and statistical data were also used to examine public investments in instruments, policies, and housing programs aimed at social housing construction in Brazil, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and finally in Três Lagoas (MS). The values invested in social housing and housing funds were obtained through requests under the Access to Information Law to relevant government agencies. Data from specialized institutions websites in the housing and construction sectors were also used. Based on this, research and data collection were conducted to examine the worsening socio-economic context resulting from the historical housing deficit and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic starting in 2020. The analysis also considered the values and interactions of urban space producers with the State. Thus, the contradiction between economic growth and urban social ills becomes evident due to the low values invested in social and affordable housing in Três Lagoas (MS). The empirical spatial focus of the research is the city of Três Lagoas (MS), with the São João Occupation serving as an example of the consequences of social housing policy in Brazil. This occupation is a result of limited public investments in social housing, reflecting the contradiction of the system and the resistance of extremely poor working families, within the context marked by the "developmentalist" discourse in Três Lagoas (MS), known nationally as the Pulp Capital of the World in recent years. Due to the lack of public investments in social housing for low-income families, the high costs of survival, impacting the budgets of low-income families more rigorously, as they face sharp increases in rent or living costs while dealing with unemployment and declining income. Consequently, some find themselves homeless or occupying urban properties as a way to exert, even if precariously, their social right to housing. In contrast, there is an ideological alignment of the State with capitalist producers of urban space aiming to earn greater profits and political privileges. Consequently, these occupations are the result of contradictions within the ultraneoliberal political-economic model, driven by the most wealthy subjects of Brazilian society. Keywords: housing policies; public investment; contradictions of the capitalist mode of production; affordable housing.