Ocupações irregulares no município de Aracaju/SE : configurações e desafios urbanos na atualidade

Abstract

This Final Course Work/TCC aims to analyze the configurations of irregular occupations in the city of Aracaju/SE, seeking to understand the urban and housing challenges, in addition to the effectiveness of occupations in the face of the main demands and social struggles for housing. The purpose was to seek to understand how real estate capital has appropriated cities as a source of production and valorization of urban spaces, and mainly, to understand how socio-spatial segregation has generated consequences. The research, of an exploratory type, and of a qualitative-quantitative nature, whose analysis is based on historical-dialectical materialism from the perspective of the totality of social life (Kosik, 1976). In it, bibliographic research was used through investigation of articles, books and dissertations related to Brazilian Housing Policy and the process of formation and perpetuation of socio-spatial segregation. The study also used documentary research, whose main sources were documents and news about irregular occupations in the city of Aracaju, in addition to primary sources such as: Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics; João Pinheiro Foundation; Observatório das Metrópoles; among others. The results show that the conduct of Sergipe's housing policy follows the national prescription of guaranteeing the conditions for capital appreciation, while qualitatively and quantitatively it continues to leave the impoverished class, mostly without access to decent housing and the right to the city. The research also revealed the double nature of capital's attack on urban social movements fighting for housing, since the operationalization tends to make access precarious, resulting in the configurations of the expressions of the social issue. However, it is concluded that the processes of commodification of Sergipe's cities, as well as in other Brazilian cities, have carried out the determining principles of speculative capital, burdening at all costs the minimum conditions of the population demanding housing in the municipality of Aracaju, reconfiguring the expressions of the urban issue in the city in the 21st century.