Challenges of Public Defender’s Office to get ressignify public places

• Autor(a) principal: Barreiros, Wilza Carla Folchini
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Defensoria Pública da União (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistadadpu.dpu.def.br/article/view/228
• topic: To reduce social inequality. Public Defender’s Office. Occupation of public place. Empty public building. Land regularization; Redução da desigualdade social. Defensoria Pública. Ocupação do espaço público. Imóveis da União desocupados. Regularização fundiária.

The purpose of this paper is focus on the importance of urban planning to reduce social inequality as long as the process focus in a fair and equal public place distribution. Apart from existing housing programs what is being point are different ways to get democratization of public space, like to occupy empty public place and promote land regularization, because normally this building are inserted in a environment with a great potential of social inclusion, ensuring the social function of property. In this way Public Defender’s Office has the relevant function, because one of institutional purpose is to give voice for the excluded people, acting to reduce social and regional inequality and the office does it when demand the realization of public politics in the area of housing and when take part in a land regularization.