Regularizar para que(m)?: um debate sobre potenciais e controvérsias da política de regularização fundiária brasileira

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to promote a debate about land regularization policies, to analyze their potentialities and controversies and to stimulate reflection on the different and contradictory interests of the agents involved in the application of these policies, taking as reference formality (commodification) and informality (partial de-commodification) in access to land by the popular classes. Assuming as a problem the commodification of the land and the lack of effective public policies to offer social housing to the low income population and thinking about the role of urban planning as a promoter of socially sustainable development, the proposition that public regulation is the main mechanism to protect the commodification of land, in order to guarantee the permanence of the most vulnerable social classes in the city's valued areas, is defended.