Das margens da BR 158 ao bairro São João: direito à moradia e à cidade em Pato Branco - PR

Abstract

This research has as object of study the formation of the São João neighborhood, located in the urban area, west of the city of Pato Branco - PR; taking into account the creation of the district in the early 1980s, it was a government strategy to remove families residing in the immediate vicinity of BR 158, which runs through town. Based on this strategy, it is questionable to what extent the transition of 158 houses from the edge of BR to the (current) São João neighborhood contributed to the realization of the rights to housing and to the city. So, to answer this question, it has been listed as a general objective of the development of this research: to analyze to what extent the implementation of the national housing policy in the city of Pato Branco contributed to the realization of housing rights and the city, in the case of São João neighborhood. And specific objectives the following points were defined: 1) support the development of the formation of cities in the capitalist order; 2) correlating the right to housing and the city with the current lineup of cities; 3) to investigate the process of moving the edge of the houses of the BR 158 to the São João neighborhood from the perspective of the research subjects. The universe of the research are families who lived along the BR 158, resulting in thirty families, and the sample are the families that have been transferred from houses located on the banks of the BR 158 to the São João neighborhood and still reside in this, a total of five respondents. This research is a case study of qualitative and exploratory. The historic building of empirical research had collected information informally with the population that is aware of the history of the formation of neighborhood and research in newspapers and local laws, as well as direct interviews with the world of research and analysis of the Convent of the Collection of photographs Santo Antônio de Pádua. It was conducted searching for information in the newspapers of that period (the early 1980s) and analysis of the minutes of the City Council Chamber of Pato Branco Municipality (the Years 1979-1983), and nothing pertaining to the installation of families on the roadside of the BR 158, or their removal and the formation of São João neighborhood was found.