Regulating real estate development in São Paulo: bureaucracy, instruments and negotiation

Abstract

Through the analysis of public-private interaction of the real estate sector in the city of São Paulo, the article questions the main arguments in the literature, which defend the existence of systemic predetermination of state capture. The article argues that the interference of real estate industry in land policy is also related to the interests of the government and its bureaucracies and that the introduction of the everyday layer of regulation allows us to analyze state regulation as a process in which tensions are constantly being produced around instruments, practices, interpretations, and the production and circulation of information.

Keywords:
Urban Policies; Real Estate; Land Regulation; Policy Instruments