Habitação social e o direito à cidade: parâmetros de avaliação de políticas e programas

Abstract

With the Right to the City, the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre opened in 1968 new fronteers for the understanding of the modern world and of cities, inspiring urban social movements and facilitating their articulation under the same flag. However, limited interpretations of the Right to the City are frequent, understanding it as an extension in the provision of social housing, basic services and transport. The Right to the City in Lefebvre’s philosophy transcends the materiality of these goods and services, as it includes aspects such as initiative, freedom and spatial plasticity, needed for the appropriation of the conditions of our existence (Lefebvre, 2008, p. 26). In this article, I present an analysis of contemporary literature about this concept in relation to the social housing sector. Following, I evaluate the National Housing Plan (2009), the policy behind the Programme My House, My Life, through two parameters that best define the Right to the City: participation and appropriation.