Programa Moradia Primeiro direito à cidade e à moradia para a população em situação de rua no Brasil

Abstract

The increase in the homeless population in Brazil expresses the impossibility of exercising the constitutional social rights to housing and the city by this segment. Faced with this scenario, methodologically opting for bibliographical and documentary research, with an emphasis on national legislation and academic and scientific research already carried out on the subject, this work seeks to analyze the (in)existence of public housing policies with this group. As specific objectives, the structuring of the population phenomenon in situation in Brazil is presented, as well as the expressive housing deficit reached in Brazil. The research also deals with the historicity of the right to housing and the city, with the aim of demonstrating its indispensability in the realization of human dignity in its cultural dimension. Recognizing that traditional policies have not been enough to tackle this social issue, it focuses on a new model of public housing policy that, raising access to housing and the city as starting points for coping with the homeless situation, symbolizes a paradigm in the effective combat to this phenomenon. To do so, it makes use of the institutional evaluative framework of social policy to investigate the Housing First program, analyzing it through its three structural plans. This research allows us to conclude that the program has to be implemented in accordance with the national reality, because if proposed in the format in which the cost of housing by the Government is for a short period, its effects will only be cyclical for the target audience, in nothing contributing to change the current situation.