Revista de Políticas Públicas (Jan 2012)

METROPOLlZAÇÃO E GESTÃO URBANA NA ILHA DO MARANHÃO: efeitos socioambientais da produção imobiliária de baixa renda

  • Frederico Lago Burnett

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This paper analyzes the process of metropolization on the island of Maranhão under the influence of low-income housing production in two periods of its history. If, at first, federal funding for the construction of large housing estates on the border of the capital caused the occupation of rural areas far from the central district of Paço do Lumiar and São José de Ribamar, at present, the cost of land and the high concentration in São Luis, led the Program "My House, My Life" to disperse thousands of homes in isolated points in those cities, denying the poorest the right of Iiving in the city.

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