A casa como ativo: os usos não regulamentados no PMCMV- Faixa 1 na RMNatal

Abstract

This dissertation analyses the many ways of using the house as an asset by the residents of Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida – Faixa 1 in the Metropolitan Region of Natal in jts attempts to social reproduction. The to be studied enterprises are those delivered between 2009 and 2012 in the referred Region, summing to 23 of them. It is taken as departure the assumption that the housing subsidised by the Programm is, beyond a physical structure of daily consumption, a space Inherent to the livelihood and coexistance of individuals, a good which in crisis contexts can become a socioeconomical asset which allows the betterment of livelihood and social and economical insertion of property owners in society. In this way, for the low wage population targeted by the Programm, the subsidised house becomes a more important good when understood the historical difficulties concerning this populational share's access to obtain income and reach for different opportunity structures which allow their social reproduction. In this study, for the identification of use of the house as an asset, the following methodological procedures are used: data bank organisation, with obtained information from documental research and in loco investigation, referring to the housing characteristics; application of 882 surveys in the 23 enterprises; and mapping of the use and soil occupation of houses and apartments. It is verified that in housing complexes, in order to reproduce and insert themselves in society, residents contemplated by PMCMV – Faixa 1 transform their houses into which it is necessary for the family survival, becoming a socioeconomic asset. In the analysed enterprises, 100% of them presented some sort of use change, even in vertical ones, which typology and low flexibility present themselves as limitation to reforms and service and commerce implementation. The numbers and types of transformations vary according to each enterprise and its specificities: scale, year, access, and others. Only one scenario presents itself constant: that in which the house always will or could be transformed as an asset, and that in a scenario of scarcity opens a window for potencialisation of family income, with the offer of services and commerce.