O impacto da financeirização da moradia na revisão do atual Plano Diretor de Juiz de Fora- MG

Abstract

This research sought to verify whether the financialization of housing, a worldwide phenomenon, affected the reviewing process of Juiz de Fora's participatory planning, especially in regards to the legal provisions related to the implementation of the right to housing. The literature on the subject shows that financialization, as the main characteristic of the current phase of capitalism, changes urban spaces and transforms housing into an important financial asset, affecting the right to housing and public housing policies. Thus, considering the global amplitude of this economic phenomenon on urban development and the influence of the financial capital on cities, it has been noted that the effects of financialization also began to affect medium-sized cities, such as Juiz de Fora. In this scenario, the object of this research is the analysis of Juiz de Fora's participatory planning legislative reviewing process, which started in 2013 and ended in 2018. An empirical-qualitative methodology of documents was adopted, based on the rules of inference and observable implications. The data, collected from Juiz de Fora's city hall and council websites, were analyzed having as theoretical framework the precepts of the financialization of housing. In this way, it was possible to verify that during the process there was low participation of the population, despite the possibility of a legislative process based on the foundations of social participation. The low adherence of the population is a determining factor for the expansion of financialization, since this phenomenon modifies political relations and affects governmental activities. In addition, it was noted that the participatory planning, through the creation of a public-private link, encouraged investment and, consequently, attracted the financial market to the most developed areas of the city, such as the central region. This prevalence of the central region, already endowed with good infrastructure, in relation to other areas of the city, drives the low-income population to the periphery, increasing socio-spatial segregation.