“Do rio ao concreto”: uma análise dos desafios enfrentados no pós-ocupação das famílias do habitacional Naná Vasconcelos no bairro Linha do Tiro.

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper was to comprehend the changes and challenges faced by the residents of the Naná Vasconcelos Housing Project after their occupation in the scope of the Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC). For the development of the study, it was done a quick approach about the urbanization process in Brazil showing how it is led by socioeconomic inequality and how the path of housing policies is marked by the growth of the house deficit, pushing to the outskirts, especially in big metropolitans’ centers, the low-income population. In this sense it was shown that the expansion of Recife’s urban structure caused many hazardous settlements, and that the PAC Beberibe was a strategy to solve this housing deficit. As results, the study has shown that it happened many improvements in the living conditions of the resettled people, like the decrease of the risks of sanitary problems and floods, common in their previous dwellings, as well as the lack of regular garbage collection and recreational areas. Nevertheless, this new way of life has generated dissatisfactions due to difficulties to adapt, for instance, the sharing of the communal areas, the house configuration and by the difficulties to afford the costs of this new living, like high electricity bill. And, further, the juridical insecurity related to the property documentation. The effectiveness of the actions of the State will help residents to feel like they belong and safe about their new home.