Política de Regularização Fundiária Urbana de Interesse Social na Região Metropolitana de Aracaju/SE : do direito pleno à mercantilização da moradia

Abstract

This study aims to understand the specificities the implementation of the Land Regularization Policy in the Urban Social Interest modality within Housing ” (Law No. 13.465/2017), and how these changes have impacted Housing Programs implemented in the State of Sergipe. The analysis highlights the contradictions and challenges that persist in the struggle for the right to housing and the realization of the social function of property. The findings of this research reveal the strengthening of the financial and real estate markets, which transform housing into a commodified good, detached from its social function and reduced to a product within the logic of capitalist accumulation. This dynamic contributes to the reproduction and perpetuation of socko-spatial inequalities that have been structured since the colonial period, reflected in current forms of urban exclusion and land concentration. The study also made it possible to identify the profile of the population most affected by this process, mainly low-income groups, Black populations, and informal workers, segments historically without access to land and housing. In the Metropolitan Region of Aracaju (RMA), such inequalities become more pronounced during urban expansion and speculative land valorization, revealing the interweaving of real estate market practices and the fragility of public housing policies aimed at promoting social justice and the right to the city. Complexes in the Metropolitan Region of Aracaju (RMA). The research adopts the historical-dialectical materialism as its analytical method, through which it was possible to develop the discussion on the contradictions surrounding the Housing Policy. The study is exploratory in nature, employing a quantitative and qualitative approach, and relies on bibliographic and documentary research procedures. The work is grounded in discussions about the historical contextualization of Housing and Land Regularization Policies in the context of urbanization processes, moving toward the characterization and specificities of the housing issue in the Metropolitan Region of Aracaju. Changes in federal legislation were analyzed comparatively, particularly between the “Full Regularization Framework” (Law No. 11.977/2009) and the “New Legal Framework for Land.