WIDENING THE SOCIO-SPACE DIFFERENTIATION IN THE CITY THROUGH THE DESIGNATED RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES OF THE PROGRAMA MINHA CASA MINHA VIDA

Abstract

The aim of this article is to understand how housing policy affects the structuring of the urban space through intra-urban residential mobility promoted by the Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida group 1, on two geographical scales: the city as a whole and in specific areas with homogeneous socioeconomic characteristics. The research analysis the residential path and specific historicalgeographic context of the city of Presidente Prudente, state of Sao Paulo, based on the analysis of the residential trajectory produced by PMCMV group 1, from observing the changes occured in the locations where they moved to. We start from the principle that residential mobility does not necessarily modify the structure of the space, but it can strengthen the social division of the unequal and hierarchical urban space. Thus, we have evidenced that the PMCMV has and exercises the capacity to ratify the already existing process of socioeconomic differentiation, instead of being a mechanism that intercedes reducing such procedure in the city.