O passado no presente: contributos para a análise da complexidade do “Morar Feliz” em Campos dos Goytacazes/RJ

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to contribute to the expansion of the debate on housing expropriations, which are one of the expressions of barbarism posed by late-capitalism. It is a study of a theoretical-interpretative nature, through which we seek to study the program of housing of social interest carried out in the municipality of Campos dos Goytacazes/RJ, "Morar Feliz", in order to investigate the spoliation and expropriatory nature of Brazilian housing policy. The research carried out pointed to a permanence of the use of the rhetoric of "risk" as a way to obtain legitimacy in the processes of resettlement of the subalternized classes of areas that interest the real estate capital. In this way, the subaltern classes begin to reside in the so-called peripheries of the peripheries and, besides being expropriated from their dwelling, they live together with a successive enlarged and permanent expropriation of goods and rights from their insertion in the housing complexes. It was evident from the study carried out that the expropriative logic has become more and more accentuated, given the structural crisis of capital, from which expropriations are used to contain its crisis of overaccumulation. Thus, in the current context of imperial capitalism, expropriations become more potent, becoming generalized and universalized, so that they constitute themselves as the very form of being of capital, evidencing the barbaric and destructive form that capital assumes in a late- capitalism.