O projeto social Pró-moradia: do direito à moradia à sua apropriação como mercadoria

Abstract

The work in question took as an object of analysis the social project of a housing project Pró-Moradia, located in an area of popular occupation of the city of Muriaé, Minas Gerais, which presents contradictions inherent in the process of capitalist production of space. The project, which still has a parish, was conceived by a dutch priest eradicated in the municipality, know as father Tiago Prins. Originally, the Pro-dwelling project seems to epitomize the ideals of what Henri Lefebvre called the “right to the city”, expressed in the primacy of the “use” of housing. Throughout their history, however, these ideals have been lost in the face of the contradictions inherent in capitalism itself, which have developed precisely because of the lack of social organization of the project in question. The fact that most of the properties do not have a deed, and these lands are linked to a group of external investors, considered as “donors”, controbuted to a path of exclusion and not access to the use of the city.