A luta pela moradia na cidade de São Paulo

Abstract

This research has as its theme the organizational process and construction of the demands of the movement of the favelas's residents and how this social movement has been conforming, over time, his repertoire of struggle for affirmation of the decent housing, mediated by its main supporter at that time, the Catholic Church, its relationship with the Government and their learning process in the attempt to support their claims.Our main goal is to describe how were the interactions between the residents of the favelas and public authorities, in the city of São Paulo, between 1975 and 1982, in a moment in which public policies for the slums would gradually moving from an emphasis on removing, still hegemonic, to the idea of collective assistance to families.For our analysis, we will quickly recapture, as a counterpoint, the struggle of the residents of illegal squatter settlements as a way of assessing the different patterns of State response associated with the struggle for urban land.The survey was developed using secondary bibliography and analysis of documents of the period, some of them produced by the movement itself and also by search of newspapers of that time.