Limits and possibilities upon the making more democratic the access to urban land and housing in Brasil in the wake of the Statute for the Cities

Authors

  • Edésio Fernandes

Keywords:

Política urbanística, Política de vivienda, Estatuto de la Ciudad, Brasil

Abstract

The enactment of the Statute for the Cities in 2001 is here said to have opened up afresh the possibility of making more democratic the traditionally exclusive access to urban land and housing in Brazilian cities. The paper explores some aspects of how this new social-legal paradigm was given that conceptual and institutional character which underlies the City Statute. This has been undertaken so as to better discuss those major procedures, mechanisms, and instruments it brought in for the country so as to make the access to land and housing more democratically fair, this along with the identifying of the main obstacles that the Brazilian government and society to surmount in their struggle against ever more unregulated process of informal urban development.

Published

2005-12-19

How to Cite

Fernandes, E. (2005). Limits and possibilities upon the making more democratic the access to urban land and housing in Brasil in the wake of the Statute for the Cities. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 37(145-6), 707–723. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/85777