Utilizing critical and welfare state theory, this thesis is primarily centred on policy analysis regarding the design and implementation of the legislated right to housing in Canada alongside the National Housing Strategy. In examining Canada’s National Housing Strategy, right to housing legislation, and analysis and commentary around the 2019 Canadian federal budget, the thesis explores the potential for the right to housing to contribute to progressive policy shifts in Canada’s housing system at a time where the impacts of commodification and financialization continue to be prevalent. Additional literature related to Canada’s housing system and social welfare responses, and commentary on the right to housing in domestic and international contexts contributes to an assessment of the social and economic conditions that have led to the emergence of alternative housing policy, as well as the underlying principles and ideologies which guide and influence state intervention. Through this assessment, it is evident that while the legal space in which to claim the right to housing may be an important foundation to further highlight and challenge inequities in Canada’s housing system, the extent to which this results in tangible systemic change remains in question. Further topics are explored in the conclusion around the potential next steps and necessary considerations for implementation in the Canadian context. The research, analysis, and discussion present in this thesis is meant to contribute to a relevant and timely critical examination of the right to housing in Canada, centred within social work values, in order to better understand how to conceptualize and challenge inequities in Canada’s housing system. / Thesis / Master of Social Work (MSW)

Le contrat de bail est habituellement présenté comme la seule voie qui règle la question de l'accession au logement. Il apparait pourtant utile de se pencher vers d'autres combinaisons voisines que le bail afin d'assurer au candidat au logement un statut attrayant d'un point de vue juridique et social.Le démembrement de la propriété, ordinairement décrit comme un mécanisme subi, dévoile des virtualités intéressantes lorsqu'il est employé dans le cadre de l'accession à un logement. C'est ainsi que l'usufruit temporaire offre une alternative innovante aux personnes dont les ressources personnelles ne permettent pas d'accéder à la propriété.Exclusivement envisagé par les rédacteurs du Code civil comme un moyen d'allouer des revenus de subsistance à son titulaire, l'usufruit devient un mode original d'appropriation des biens. Si le rôle domestique de l'usufruit est attaché à sa tradition historique, la contribution de l'usufruit à la réalisation d'un droit au logement nouveau imprimera une nouvelle finalité à cette prérogative / The lease is usually presented as the only way to resolve the issue of access to housing. It appears, however, useful to look to other neighboring combinations that the lease to ensure the candidate attractive to housing status of a legally and socially.The dismemberment of the property, usually described as a mechanism for sustained, reveals interesting potentialities when used as part of home accommodation.Thus the temporary usufruct offers an innovative alternative to individuals whose personal resources do not allow access to the property.Exclusively envisaged by the drafters of the Civil Code as a means to allocate subsistence income to the holder, the usufruct is an original mode of appropriation of property. If the domestic role of the usufruct is attached to its historical tradition, the contribution of the usufruct to the achievement of a new right to housing will print a new purpose that prerogative

O trabalho busca estudar os principais aspectos da intersecção entre o instituto da desapropriação e o direito à moradia no cenário urbano brasileiro, especialmente a partir da ótica judicial. Para tanto, inicialmente desenvolve-se uma análise acerca do contexto em que se coloca o problema habitacional no país, marcado pelo incremento da exclusão social e pela falta de moradias para parcela crescente da população, em contraposição a toda uma normativa jurídica garantidora do direito à moradia. Em um segundo momento, é empreendido um estudo empírico das decisões do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São Paulo, Comarca de São Paulo, pelo período entre 2007 e 2015, com o emprego da metodologia da análise de conteúdo, para identificar a interação entre os temas estudados (desapropriação e moradia) na prática do Tribunal em questão. Como resultado é possível notar que a relação entre a desapropriação e o direito à moradia transcende o uso do instrumento da desapropriação como uma ferramenta de políticas públicas habitacionais. Assim, em uma terceira etapa, optou-se por trabalhar os dados colhidos em cinco questões principais: a indenização, o incumprimento das sentenças judiciais, as causas de utilidade pública (lato sensu), os atores afetados e o problema da autoridade jurídica. A conclusão aponta para a necessidade de revisitação da desapropriação, no sentido de uma prática mais eficiente, racional, justa e sustentável. / The research aims to study the main aspects of the intersection between the institute of expropriation and the right to housing in the Brazilian urban setting, especially through the judicial perspective. Initially, we developed an analysis about the context in which the housing problem takes place in the country, marked by the increase of social exclusion and the lack of housing for a growing portion of the population. Secondly, an analysis was undertaken through an empirical study of the decisions of the Court of the State of São Paulo, District of São Paulo, in the period between 2007 and 2015, using the content analysis methodology, to identify the interaction between the studied themes (expropriation and housing) in the rulings of the Court. As a result, it is possible to realize that the relationship between the expropriation and the right to housing goes beyond the use of the expropriation instrument as a tool for public policies on housing. Thus, in a third step, the analysis of the data collected was accomplished through five main matters: compensation, failure to comply with court rulings, the causes of public interest (lato sensu), affected actors and the problem of legal authority. The conclusion points out the need for revisiting the expropriation towards a more efficient, rational, fair and sustainable practice.

O presente estudo analisa o deslocamento e inserção de imigrantes comerciantes na cidade de São Paulo a partir das histórias de vida de peruanos trabalhadores ambulantes na Feirinha da Madrugada no bairro do Brás. Partindo do depoimento dos entrevistados, assim como das observações de campo à feirinha, dos espaços de lazer e atividades de tempo livre, procurou-se conhecer as diversas dimensões do vivido em contexto de imigração, tendo como principais eixos de análise a questão do trabalho precário, direito à moradia e lazer. Procura-se, contudo contribuir para o conhecimento do fenômeno migratório contemporâneo no Brasil dando um rosto mais humano à abordagem da realidade dos milhares de pessoas que se deslocam em busca de melhores condições de vida, reconhecendo-os como indivíduos sociais, de direito e protagonistas da sua própria história. / The present study analyzes the displacement and insertion of commercial immigrants in the city of São Paulo from the life stories of Peruvian mobile workers at Midnight Fair in the district of Brás. Based on the interviewees\' testimony, as well as the field observations to the fair, recreation spaces and free time activities, we sought to know the different dimensions of the lived in immigration context, having as main axes of analysis the issue of precarious work , right to housing and leisure. It seeks to contribute to the knowledge of the contemporary migratory phenomenon in Brazil giving a more humane face in approaching the reality of the thousands of people who move in search of better living conditions, recognizing them as social individuals, in law and protagonists of its own history.

O presente estudo analisa o deslocamento e inserção de imigrantes comerciantes na cidade de São Paulo a partir das histórias de vida de peruanos trabalhadores ambulantes na Feirinha da Madrugada no bairro do Brás. Partindo do depoimento dos entrevistados, assim como das observações de campo à feirinha, dos espaços de lazer e atividades de tempo livre, procurou-se conhecer as diversas dimensões do vivido em contexto de imigração, tendo como principais eixos de análise a questão do trabalho precário, direito à moradia e lazer. Procura-se, contudo contribuir para o conhecimento do fenômeno migratório contemporâneo no Brasil dando um rosto mais humano à abordagem da realidade dos milhares de pessoas que se deslocam em busca de melhores condições de vida, reconhecendo-os como indivíduos sociais, de direito e protagonistas da sua própria história. / The present study analyzes the displacement and insertion of commercial immigrants in the city of São Paulo from the life stories of Peruvian mobile workers at Midnight Fair in the district of Brás. Based on the interviewees\' testimony, as well as the field observations to the fair, recreation spaces and free time activities, we sought to know the different dimensions of the lived in immigration context, having as main axes of analysis the issue of precarious work , right to housing and leisure. It seeks to contribute to the knowledge of the contemporary migratory phenomenon in Brazil giving a more humane face in approaching the reality of the thousands of people who move in search of better living conditions, recognizing them as social individuals, in law and protagonists of its own history.

A right to housing is a central iteration of the broader demand for a democratic right to the city. The perpetual housing crisis for lower-income people results from a commodified system in which access to housing is based on the exchange value interests of property owners, rather than a universal right to a decent, affordable home. This system is a pillar of neoliberal urban governance and justified by a hegemonic ideology that equates speculative homeownership with the American Dream. Achieving a right to housing, even at the local scale, requires a radical movement that cultivates individual and collective consciousness, discredits the dominant ideology, and fights for decommodification. In recent years, grassroots organizing in the Cully neighborhood of Portland, OR, has resisted gentrification and contributed to local housing policy victories. As an activist research project, a survey of existing housing advocates tests the framework of housing consciousness and interest groups developed by John Emmeus Davis (1991), and explores the potential for a radical housing movement in Cully. Across lines of housing tenure, respondents widely agree with a right to housing in the abstract, recognize unjust outcomes of the existing system, and support policies that prioritize housing rights over property rights. Yet many are skeptical of interventions specifically in the homeownership system, and express limited or contradictory understandings of the structural underpinnings of housing injustice.

Univ., Diss.--Maastricht, 2007.

Zugl.: Mannheim, Univ., Diss., 2007 / Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Univ. Mannheim, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-337).

A pesquisa exibe uma análise referente à interação entre espaço urbano e cidadania, focando na atuação da Defensoria Pública como instituição mediadora do processo político, social e jurídico de reivindicação do direito à moradia, pretendendo estabelecer uma reflexão de fundo sociológico e jurídico. O problema de pesquisa consiste em identificar o papel da Defensoria Pública, destacadamente no que toca às modalidades/possibilidades de atuação, como instituição estatal, na mediação dos conflitos urbanos de reivindicação da concretização da moradia digna pelos grupos vulneráveis. A hipótese central baseia-se na afirmação de que os processos judiciais que tratam da reivindicação do direito à moradia por pessoas vulneráveis não se revelam exitosos, de forma que deve a Defensoria Pública, enquanto instituição de acesso ao sistema de justiça, buscar alternativas extrajudiciais de pleitear o direito em questão, estando sempre atenta às peculiaridades culturais que compõe a cidadania brasileira e que formam seu público assistido. Considera-se que objeto teórico de pesquisa envolve as noções de cidadania, espaço urbano e moradia, que foram cotejadas com o objeto real representado pela Defensoria Pública, enquanto mediadora dos processos de reivindicação de moradia por meio do Direito. O recorte temporal efetuado se deu com ênfase a partir do ano 2000, momento em que a moradia foi alçada à categoria de direito fundamental. A pesquisa se enquadra na vertente jurídico-sociológica, sendo empregado o raciocínio dedutivo. Para tanto, analisam-se as dinâmicas próprias da cidadania no contexto nacional, almejando vinculá-la à efervescência social e política da cena urbana contemporânea. Ao final, debate-se sobre a inserção da Defensoria Pública nesse instável cenário, sempre cotejando as previsões normativas com a realidade vivenciada a fim de não nos perdermos em um dogmatismo etéreo. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-06-25T17:16:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Arion Escorsin de Godoy.pdf: 1288062 bytes, checksum: 0cb1d29900f06e157d576e370039d0ba (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-06-25T17:16:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Arion Escorsin de Godoy.pdf: 1288062 bytes, checksum: 0cb1d29900f06e157d576e370039d0ba (MD5) / The research is an analysis on the interaction between urban space and citizenship, focusing on the performance of the Public Defender as a mediator of the political, social and legal process the claiming of the house, intending to establish a sociological and legal background reflection. The research problem is to identify the role of the Public Defender, notably with regard to modalities / performance possibilities, such as state institution, in mediating the claim of urban conflicts of the implementation of decent housing for vulnerable groups. The central hypothesis is based on the assertion that judicial proceedings dealing with the claim of the right to housing for vulnerable people do not show successful, so should the Public Defender as an institution of access to the justice system, extrajudicial seek alternative claim the right in question, always attentive to the cultural peculiarities that make up the Brazilian citizenship and forming their assisted public. It is considered that theoretical research object involves the notions of citizenship, urban space and housing, which were collated with the real object represented by the Public Defender, as a mediator of housing claim processes through law. The time frame is made with emphasis given from 2000, at which time the house was raised to the category of fundamental right. The research falls within the legal and sociological dimension and is used deductive reasoning. For this, we analyze the dynamics proper citizenship in the national context, aiming link it to social unrest and political contemporary urban scene. In the end, the debate is about the insertion of the Public Defender in this unstable scenario, always comparing the normative predictions with the reality experienced in order not to get lost in an ethereal dogmatism.

A pesquisa exibe uma análise referente à interação entre espaço urbano e cidadania, focando na atuação da Defensoria Pública como instituição mediadora do processo político, social e jurídico de reivindicação do direito à moradia, pretendendo estabelecer uma reflexão de fundo sociológico e jurídico. O problema de pesquisa consiste em identificar o papel da Defensoria Pública, destacadamente no que toca às modalidades/possibilidades de atuação, como instituição estatal, na mediação dos conflitos urbanos de reivindicação da concretização da moradia digna pelos grupos vulneráveis. A hipótese central baseia-se na afirmação de que os processos judiciais que tratam da reivindicação do direito à moradia por pessoas vulneráveis não se revelam exitosos, de forma que deve a Defensoria Pública, enquanto instituição de acesso ao sistema de justiça, buscar alternativas extrajudiciais de pleitear o direito em questão, estando sempre atenta às peculiaridades culturais que compõe a cidadania brasileira e que formam seu público assistido. Considera-se que objeto teórico de pesquisa envolve as noções de cidadania, espaço urbano e moradia, que foram cotejadas com o objeto real representado pela Defensoria Pública, enquanto mediadora dos processos de reivindicação de moradia por meio do Direito. O recorte temporal efetuado se deu com ênfase a partir do ano 2000, momento em que a moradia foi alçada à categoria de direito fundamental. A pesquisa se enquadra na vertente jurídico-sociológica, sendo empregado o raciocínio dedutivo. Para tanto, analisam-se as dinâmicas próprias da cidadania no contexto nacional, almejando vinculá-la à efervescência social e política da cena urbana contemporânea. Ao final, debate-se sobre a inserção da Defensoria Pública nesse instável cenário, sempre cotejando as previsões normativas com a realidade vivenciada a fim de não nos perdermos em um dogmatismo etéreo. / The research is an analysis on the interaction between urban space and citizenship, focusing on the performance of the Public Defender as a mediator of the political, social and legal process the claiming of the house, intending to establish a sociological and legal background reflection. The research problem is to identify the role of the Public Defender, notably with regard to modalities / performance possibilities, such as state institution, in mediating the claim of urban conflicts of the implementation of decent housing for vulnerable groups. The central hypothesis is based on the assertion that judicial proceedings dealing with the claim of the right to housing for vulnerable people do not show successful, so should the Public Defender as an institution of access to the justice system, extrajudicial seek alternative claim the right in question, always attentive to the cultural peculiarities that make up the Brazilian citizenship and forming their assisted public. It is considered that theoretical research object involves the notions of citizenship, urban space and housing, which were collated with the real object represented by the Public Defender, as a mediator of housing claim processes through law. The time frame is made with emphasis given from 2000, at which time the house was raised to the category of fundamental right. The research falls within the legal and sociological dimension and is used deductive reasoning. For this, we analyze the dynamics proper citizenship in the national context, aiming link it to social unrest and political contemporary urban scene. In the end, the debate is about the insertion of the Public Defender in this unstable scenario, always comparing the normative predictions with the reality experienced in order not to get lost in an ethereal dogmatism.