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Social Production of Housing
 Social groups all over in Brazil and all over Latin America have carried out innovative, independent and self-organized experiences to address the complex process of satisfying housing and survival needs. These grassroots processes for the social production of housing and for the democratisation of access to urban land have been strengthened since the 1970s as a result of social movements organized in the struggle for land and housing in the cities of Latin America. The most common experiences involve land regularisation and slum upgrading, as well as cooperatives, associations and mutirões for housing production and improvements. The rehabilitation or renovation of housing in central areas, the democratisation of access to developed land and to basic services and the participation in decision-making processes have been subjects of central attention both by government and urban social movements in Brazil. Despite the fact that the Brazilian national government has indeed managed to advance in formulating a national housing and land policy and in creating the essential legal-institutional bases, programmes continue isolated and ineffective. Many obstacles of a conceptual, political, institutional and financial nature have to be overcome before the legal concessions become reality. Even considering these limits, the role of federal government has great socio-political importance, given the extent and implications of the problem of informal land and property markets. On the other hand, civil society has endeavoured to act in coordination with a range of relevant local and national social actors as to enforce legislation on land and housing rights and to implement the correspondent public policies. |
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