Reflections about housing policy: state and class conflicts

Abstract

This article aims to highlight the features present in housing policy in the context of PT governments and their influence on the workers lives as well as the current returns in this sector under the Bolsonaro government, having as centrality for this analysis the global crisis of capital and its contemporary peculiarities, the role of the State in bourgeois society and class conflicts. To this end, it was consider the Brazilian context of ultraliberal and conservative offensive expressed in the government reactionary counter-reforms, policies and actions. From methodological point of view was used the bibliographical research to clarify a debated issue. As a relevant result, the importance of the socio-political organization of workers was found, which, through social movements and their daily struggles, impress forces for access to their rights, notably that of housing. In this direction, it was essential to discuss the right to the city in the contradictory relations of capitalist society and the limits of democracy.

Keywords

• política habitacional
• conflitos de classe
• direito à cidade
• papel do estado
• crise capitalista