Abstract
Housing is one of the most basic needs of citizens. It is not possible to aim for a better quality of life, to promote a range of other basic rights without the fully in possession of a suitable home, with sanitation and other public services such as garbage collection, light and piped water. However, through a strategically segregationist process in the composition of cities and in the processes of urbanization, this is not an accessible reality to millions of Brazilians who still see usurped their right to housing. The repossession of Pinheirinho in São José dos Campos is emblematic in this sense when, by a judicial decision, 1,600 families were totally dislodged, their houses demolished and threw without a clear perspective of the future. A bibliographic survey was developed in books and online platforms to study this sibylline case and the explanation building technique was used for the description of the case. The results corroborated the initial motto of the research: the city is composed of a confluence of contrasting interests, where capital, power and dominance are what counts.
Keywords:
Right to the city; Pinheirinho; Repossession; Urban planning