Políticas públicas de habitação e o Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento: análise das intervenções no estado do Rio de Janeiro - doi: 10.5102/rbpp.v1i3.1487

Abstract

This paper’s objective is to examine public housing policies implemented by the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) and the interventions of urbanization in slums and shanty towns in the Rio de Janeiro state. In the first part it will be examined the land question after the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution and the Statute of the City, as well as the inclusion of the issue of land regularization in Land Affairs Forum created by the Justice National Council. It is also discussed the territorialization of housing policy investment implemented by the housing PAC promoting the social inclusion process developed by the federal government to implement its national policy of slum upgrading promoting, along with other measures, land regularization with the states and government cooperation through municipal sources obtained by the agents involved in the research. Finally, it will study the major historical interventions conducted in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro and comparing them with the actions already implemented by PAC, reflecting on the instruments used in PAC regularization to ensure the right to decent housing in communities. It is concluded that through improvements projects of precarious settlements inserted into the PAC were contemplated actions, works and services aiming to overcome the precariousness of the settlements chosen to incorporate them into the formal city, with the approach of urban, housing, land, social and environmental issues. However, to avoid the formation of new illegalities, it should be considered a set of economic measures, tax and fare to subsidize the costs transferred to the attended new residents.