"A terra do nunca: luta por moradia, conflitos e sociabilidades em um condomínio vertical do programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida na cidade de Campina Grande-PB.

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”.