Segregação socioespacial urbana: a farsa do direito à moradia no contexto dos conjuntos habitacionais populares precários

Abstract

Housing is one of the most basic direct to ensure a dignified life to human. However, poverty makes this right still severely violated, there being thousands of people in precarious housing and homeless, away from their dignity. The State, which is responsible for ensuring the fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution, attempts to alleviate this problem through housing programs, whose most common instrument is through the construction of popular housing complexes. However, many of these complexes of social interest are located outside the urban compound and far from the original place of the removed population, creating a serious sociospatial segregation, besides serving to enhance social inequality and the formation of true ghettos on the suburbs. Thus, the denial of the right to the city is done as it is announced the realization of right to housing for the poor population through these popular residential programs, putting into question the Republican goal of a freer, fairer and more solidary society. Through the compilation of doctrine, statistical data and various documents, it is clear that housing has served as a political shield to remove the poorest people from the areas of economic and/or environmental interest, and that space has served the interests of ruling class, whose domination turns it into a commodity, reverberating in territory the same exclusionary model of the capitalist economic system. The consequences of this ongoing politics subdued to the interests of the most financially fortunate groups are the misery, violence and lack of human dignity to thousands of people, making the State ever more totalitarian as it fails to fulfill the rightfully enacted legislation. Thereby, it is concluded that cities should be reconsidered from a new model, more democratic and consistent with the republican purposes and constitutional rights, otherwise becoming spaces of violent social segregation.