Public housing in the United States has been a controversial sociopolitical topic since the years of the Great Depression. The issue of appropriate and secure habitation for the country's "deserving poor" continues to be of great importance as government subsidies become scarce in the early 21st century. This dearth of support for public housing is even more evident and prominent along the United States-Mexico border of South Texas, a territory described as having a third world environment. The dissertation is a narrative history of public housing in Laredo, Texas, a border community. Compiled from news media records and the archives of the Laredo Housing Authority, the study gives insight into methods used by this authority to achieve decent habitation for the underprivileged residents of one of the poorest cities in the United States. After a historical background of Laredo, the study follows a chronological development of federally funded housing through the six decades that began in 1938. The study accentuates the continuing need for such housing as its sponsoring federal agency; the Department of Housing and Urban Development fails to properly fund its subsidiary programs and projects. Principal governmental and nongovernmental sources substantiate the dearth of appropriate housing, with the author providing further insight to his native city's plight. The conclusion outlines how funding, together with higher upkeep and energy costs, will continue in a downward spiral and will lead to an increase in the underserved poor population.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T19:07:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Texto completo - LUCIA MAIA.pdf: 1013797 bytes, checksum: c1b0d73276b03fff0f96b310468ea161 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-07-03 / The present work investigates the social, economical, political, cultural and historical aspects that make children and adolescents vulnerable to sexual exploitation in the City of Iguassu, state of Paraná, Brazil. The large number of children and adolescents in situation of sexual exploitation worldwide, in Brazil and in Iguassu is sufficient to justify this study theme. The border's miseries , the sexual exploitation of female children and adolescents in Iguassu has the purpose to understand the qualitative details of sexual exploitation on female children and adolescents in Iguassu, Brazil, in 2012. We aim at finding the characteristics of this context, and understand, through studies, documents, descriptions and narratives, the sexual exploitation, and identify its characterictics and specificities. We have given priviledge to field research, by means of auscultation techniques, which consist in collecting free testimonials, allowing the subjects of the research to report their own lives. Throughout the auscultation we have found dramatic stories of the people who had their lives violated by social miseries, sexual abuse and exploitation. / O presente estudo investiga os fatores sociais, econômicos, políticos, culturais e históricos que tornam crianças e adolescentes vulneráveis à exploração sexual em Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brasil. A existência de elevado número de crianças e de adolescentes em situação de exploração sexual no mundo, no Brasil e em Foz do Iguaçu, é suficiente para justificar a pesquisa sobre a temática. Misérias das fronteiras, a exploração sexual de crianças e adolescentes femininas em Foz do Iguaçu tem como objetivo compreender as nuances qualitativas da exploração sexual de crianças e adolescentes femininas em Foz do Iguaçu-Paraná, Brasil em 2012. Busca-se caracterizar o contexto da exploração sexual de crianças e adolescentes femininas, entender por meio de estudos, documentos, descrições e narrativas a exploração sexual e identificar as características e especificidades do fenômeno da exploração sexual. Privilegiou-se, para a pesquisa de campo, a técnica das auscultas, que consiste em colher depoimentos livres, permitindo que as sujeitas e os sujeitos relatem suas vidas. A partir das auscultas verifica-se histórias dramáticas das sujeitas que tiveram suas vidas violadas pelas misérias sociais, pelo abuso e exploração sexuais.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:22:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adelita Araujo de Souza.pdf: 14274914 bytes, checksum: c505da3a5b145d8614745d83a468c03d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-16 / This research makes a consideration on urban and socio-spatial phenomena in the Iguassu border, where there are the cities formed in Argentine, Brazilian and Paraguayan territories. In this regard, it uses the border concept adopted by geography and the urban phenomenon adopted by urban planner Bernardo Secchi. For this investigation, we highlight the 70s as the time frame, period represented by the construction of Itaipu Binacional Power Plant, which promoted a global plan for housing, structuring the road system and articulating the urban grid plan concerning Brazilian and Paraguayan cities. This analysis has been carried out pointing political, economical and social aspects which involved the construction of the dam, as well as urban and architectural projects deployed by the company which eventually contributed to the current processes of urban expansion and interaction between these cities. First of all, we analyzed the natural logics which set up the urban relations over time such as commercial and touristic links, mobility and urban structure, immigration and territorialization processes, cultural and identity changes, for then reflecting on documents and projects dated of the construction of the dam, which reveal the interest of both Brazilian and Paraguayan military governments. The analysis of the urban projects shows that the adopted party was conceived to the population control and surveillance, besides of organizing socio-cultural hierarchies, while that, to the military class, urban projects were observed the same oriented for socialization, enhancement of public space and environment. Finally, it was concluded that the immediate consequences led to segregation, urban grid plan fraying and overcrowded cities culminating in social and identity conflicts. / Esta pesquisa realiza uma reflex?o sobre os fen?menos urbanos e s?cio-espaciais na fronteira do Igua?u, onde se encontram as cidades formadas nos territ?rios da Argentina, Brasil e Paraguai. Para isso, utiliza o conceito de fronteira adotado pela geografia e o conceito de fen?meno urbano adotado pelo urbanista Bernardo Secchi. Para a investiga??o, delineamos a d?cada de 1970 como o recorte temporal, per?odo representado pela constru??o da Usina de Itaipu Binacional, que promoveu um plano global de urbaniza??o para as cidades paraguaias e brasileiras, se baseado principalmente na constru??o de conjuntos habitacionais e na estrutura??o do sistema vi?rio, articulando as malhas urbanas das cidades da zona de fronteira. A an?lise ? realizada pontuando os aspectos pol?ticos, econ?micos e sociais que envolveram a constru??o da usina, bem como dos projetos urbanos e arquitet?nicos implantados pela empresa que, por fim, contribu?ram para os processos atuais de expans?o urbana e intera??o entre estas cidades. Analisamos primeiramente as l?gicas naturais que configuraram as rela??es urbanas ao longo do tempo, como v?nculos comerciais e tur?sticos, mobilidade e estrutura urbana, imigra??o e processos de territorializa??o, trocas culturais e identit?rias para, em seguida, refletir sobre os documentos e projetos da ?poca da constru??o da usina que revelam os interesses dos governos militares do Brasil e do Paraguai. A an?lise dos projetos urbanos demonstra que o partido adotado foi concebido para o controle e a vigil?ncia da popula??o, al?m de organizar hierarquias sociais e culturais, ao mesmo tempo em que, para a classe militar, observam-se projetos urbanos orientados para a socializa??o, a valoriza??o do espa?o p?blico e do meio ambiente. Finalmente, concluiu-se que as conseq??ncias imediatas conduziram ? segrega??o, ao esgar?amento da malha urbana e ao incha?o das cidades, culminando em conflitos sociais e identit?rios.