A City for Few? Particularities of housing production for popular segments in Imperatriz-MA

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Kaio de Moura
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Sousa, Jailson de Macedo, Soares, Beatriz Ribeiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Geografia (Londrina)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/geografia/article/view/40495
• topic: Housing policy; Urban spatial segregation; Imperatriz-MA.; Política de vivenda; Segregación espacial urbana; Imperatriz-MA.; Política habitacional; Segregação espacial urbana; Imperatriz-MA.

In this article, we reflect on the configurations of the housing policy widespread in the city of Imperatriz, particularly in the Itamar Guará housing complex, which is located in the southern portion of the city, in a peripheral area. The objective was to understand the relationships between the process of urban expansion and the problem of urban spatial segregation. Thus, this study presents as a central problem the question of housing and, within this, the housing policies disseminated through the Program Minha Casa Minha Vida - PMCMV, having as analytical particularity, the dynamics of urban socio-spatial segregation, materialized in the Itamar Guará set. To obtain data, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the residents, based on systematic observation. Serious problems in the reality of the set pointed to the need for a study in order to understand the effects of the housing policy spread in this locality. Thus, it was noted that urban social-spatial segregation constitutes one of the ingredients, i.e., the effects of housing policy, expressing, through the absence of public educational policies, the absence of green areas, the absence of basic sanitation, among other problems.