Direito à cidade : respostas do Estado em torno da moradia e sua função social

Brazilian urbanization, due to late industrialization, was defined by capital dominance and its impact on the working class, restraining it from being a part of urban land, resulting in the social-spatial segregation still seen nowadays. The difficulties in access to the city, especially the rights to housing and its dilemmas related to a social-spatial segregation caused by the state‘s inefficiency in taking action, regarding the theme, are discussed in this study. The general objective was to theoretically analyze 'the right to the city' in Brazil in relation to the right to housing and its social function. In a specific way, it aimed to reflect on the process of commercialization of urban spaces and how it interferes with the right to housing in Brazil; it also evaluates Brazilian housing legislation regarding the principles of the social function of ownership and identify which are the State‘s actions referring to the right of housing and urban land after the publication of law 10.257/2001. Methodologically the qualitative approach of exploratory nature was used, gathering a biographic (various publications) and documental (decrees, laws and governmental programs available online) research. The data was collected through marking and analyzing the researched material using the content analysis technique. The referential adopted in this research is dialectical and historical materialism, mediating quantitative and qualitative data. As main conclusions of the study, the results show a confirmation of the listed hypotheses proving that the process of urbanization performed by Brazilian governments strengthen the cutting capitalist real estate, which keeps discarding the most impoverished out of the right to housing and reproducing the historical social-spatial segregation in Brazil. Another important result is that even after the City‘s Statute approval, which promotes an enlargement of a legal framework in relation to a city‘s social function and property, it is noticeable that the housing policies developed by ...