Bobeira é não viver a realidade – estratégias informais operadas pela massa trabalhadora para ter um local de moradia na cidade de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

This work aims to present the strategies operated by the mass to guarantee a place of residence in the city. The mass corresponds to a group of workers that in the Brazilian urban reality is no exception, being predominantly made up of informal workers, black, with low education and low income. This means that the working mass is not an absolute consumer of goods, merchandise and services offered in capitalist cities, especially housing. This reality conditions the mass to have no choices, having to make do to guarantee their maintenance in the cities. With that, in order to have a place to live, they re-establish strategies to achieve their staking in the city space, dealt with by informality to have a place to live. The informality is operated by the necessary irregular occupation and, also, by the imperative self-construction of housing. The main objective of this dissertation is to list a discussion that stimulates the understanding and socio-spatial interpretation about the locations of urban exclusion, stimulating the search for a contextualized understanding with the purpose of critically denouncing (that is, beyond common sense) a perceived reality e noticed by the researcher of the reality of urban exclusion. A case study is also inserted in this work from the urban exclusion space known in the city of Juiz de Fora / MG as Três Moinhos, a locality delimited as a Special Social Interest Zone (ZEIS), in view of its housing vulnerability recognized by urban planning. This local geographic scale will allow us to visualize all this spatial context of urban exclusion in a more intimate way, based, above all, on the point of view of the residents themselves, having as a starting point the report of their entire trajectory of occupation of Três Moinhos.