Social movements in the struggle for housing in Belo Horizonte: case study of urban occupations in Belo Horizonte and the metropolitan area

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Maria Tereza Fonseca
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Calixto, Juliano dos Santos, de Freitas, Luiz Fernando Vasconcelos, de Souza, Lucas Nasser, Lages, Lívia Bastos, Pinto, Julia Dinardi Alves, Rosa, Marcos Bernardes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica Direito e Sociedade - REDES
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.unilasalle.edu.br/index.php/redes/article/view/3194
• topic: rban Occupations; Right to the City; Social Movements; Right to Housing.; Sociologia jurídica; antropologia jurídica; direito público; Ocupações Urbanas; Direito à Cidade; Movimentos Sociais; Direito a Moradia.

In recent years, movements for housing have gained prominence with the realization and multiplication of urban occupations, which have guaranteed the right to housing for thousands of families and, at the same time, raised a new way of thinking and building the Increasingly inclusive. From social cartography and mapping of new urban occupations that occurred in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte from 2009, there was contact with the social movements to fight for housing in the region. It was tried to demonstrate, from the collected data, how the social movements and other supporters of the urban occupations have been determinant in the production of the space in the metropolis. According to Henri Lefebvre’s studies on the right to the city, it has been observed that the struggles for urban reform and the right to adequate housing in urban occupations - to those who have had this right denied in recent years - Planning, organizing and supporting the permanence of the residents in the occupied areas.