SILVA, V. P. A.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8984801910821360; SILVA, Valéria Patrícia Araújo.
Abstract:
The Brazilian Housing Program "Minha Casa, Minha Vida" (PMCMV), in the ambit of
social interest’s housing, reallocated to the Condominium Housing Major Veneziano the
families of the "Favela do Papelão", the "Ocupação Margarida Maria Alves" –
organized by the Movement of Fight in the Neighborhoods, Villages and Favelas
(MLB) – and hundreds of other families from different neighborhoods of the city of
Campina Grande-PB. The experiences, dynamics, adaptations, struggles and
experiences of these families are very different and this Master's dissertation sought to
reveal, from interviews with 35 residents, such as stigmas, inequalities, precariousness,
segregation and irregularities are re-signified in the daily life of a vertical condominium
Of PMCMV. In addition, this research reflects on the housing policy implemented in
Brazil in the last decade for low-income families. In this aspect, from the perspective of
the sociology of everyday life, this study rescues the origins, trajectories and
experiences with the urban space of families reallocated to the apartments, based on the
perception of the individuals benefited by the housing program. Four years after the
actual relocation, the “dream” of the home was not realized for all. Many families of the
occupation Margarida Maria Alves remain in the condominium, while the majority of
those that arrived from the Favela do Papelão left the apartments. In addition to the
complaints about urban segregation, already revealed by other studies on the PMCMV,
it was also possible to understand a dynamics of conflicts, vulnerabilities and
precariousness that concern two main themes: the nonpayment of the condominium fee
and the rules of collective coexistence. There are also fear and insecurity in front of
crime and violence, mainly associated with the use and sale of drugs, robberies and
thefts. The most common perception is of a frustrated dream, or, as one resident says: “I
usually call this here a never land, here it never existed, it does not exist, nor we do
exist”.
