A SEGURANÇA JURÍDICA DA POSSE COMO PRESSUPOSTO DO DIREITO FUNDAMENTAL À MORADIA

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse one of the grant premises that guarantees the right to adequate housing, which is the “legal security of tenure”, in accordance with the provisions of United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in its General Comment n. 4. Taking into account housing as an autonomous fundamental right, set forth in article 6th of 1988 Brazilian Constitution, we discuss whether is possible to apply to any housing the concept of legal security of tenure that already exists in the Brazilian Civil Law system, that is the Direito Real de Habitação institute, which basically guarantees the spouse to remain in the home when partner fades away, despite the interest of legal inheritors. In this situation, although its exceptionality, is possible to identify the premise of legal security of tenure, which is the object of recommendation by the United Nations Organization, which we intend to broaden it to any other situations involving legal security of tenure. For the development of this research, we have compared Brazilian law and the precedents of main Brazilian tribunals on the Direito Real de Habitação institute to international documents that deal with the protection of the right to adequate housing, such as the aforementioned General Comment 4 and the Habitat Agenda, as well as the goal 11 of the Millennium Declaration. Keywords: Right to Housing; Adequate housing; Housing as an autonomous fundamental right; The Institute of Direito Real de Habitação; Legal security of tenure.