DECADE BY DECADE: HOUSING POLICIES AND THE PRODUCTION OF URBAN SPACE IN LONDRINA-PR

Resumo

Thinking about urban space from a historical and social construction, and consequently, a territory of interest of the most varied actors, this article aims to understand how, and if, the construction of housing via public housing policies interferes with the production and growth of the city of Londrina-PR and contribute to the accentuation of socio-spatial inequalities. Using a qualitative approach, based on the dialectic paradigm and the Regressive-Progressive Method developed by Henri Lefebvre (1978), a study was carried out through documentary analysis that correlates the construction of housing complexes of social interest with the expansion of the urban perimeter between the years 1960 and 2022. The article is divided into three items: the first, will present aspects relating to the formation and growth of Londrina-PR; the second will carry out a regression to the past, analyzing the spatialization of housing complexes over decades, correlating with the expansion of the urban perimeter; and finally, the last item, we intend to develop an analysis that articulates all the information collected with this regression into the past. It is concluded that housing policies directly influenced the growth of the city's territorial area with the standard of peripheral construction, acting directly on real estate appreciation and speculation, to the detriment of the population's quality of life.